The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), the nation’s reserve bank, has actually officially authorized 2 business to supply crypto services. One is the brokerage arm of DBS, the biggest bank in Singapore and Southeast Asia. The other is Independent Reserve, a crypto exchange and OTC trading desk.
Singapore’s Central Bank Formally Approves DBS and Independent Reserve
DBS Bank revealed Friday that its brokerage arm, DBS Vickers (DBSV), “has actually gotten official approval from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) under the Payment Services Act 2019 to supply digital payment token services as a Major Payment Institution.”
The bank described: “This will make it possible for DBSV, as a member of DBS Digital Exchange (Ddex), to straight support possession supervisors and business to sell digital payment tokens through Ddex.”
Eng-Kwok Seat Moey, head of Capital Markets at DBS and chair of the DBS Digital Exchange, commented:
Having got official regulative approval from MAS, DBSV is now in a much better position to assistance institutional and business financiers in using the growing capacity of digital possessions as a financial investment class.
Since its launch in December as a member-only bourse, DBS Digital Exchange has actually been “growing extremely quickly,” the bank stated last month, including that the platform anticipated the variety of trading members to double by the end of December, and grow by 20-30% yearly for the next 3 years.
Another business, Independent Reserve, a crypto exchange and OTC trading desk, also revealed Friday that it has actually gotten “licensure approval” from the MAS. The exchange, developed in Australia in 2013, supplies SGD, AUD, USD, and NZD fiat-to-crypto trading sets. The business composed:
Cryptocurrency exchange Independent Reserve has today got approval for a Major Payment Institution License in Singapore … to run as a managed service provider for Digital Payment Token Services.
Independent Reserve CEO Adrian Przelozny believed: “A well-regulated environment will benefit both financiers and crypto market stakeholders. With tailormade guidelines for the crypto market, Singapore presently has the clearest and most comprehensive licensing requirements of any jurisdiction in Asia.”
The exchange revealed in August that it got an “in-principle approval” from the reserve bank. Since then, “we’ve seen an increase of retail and institutional financiers,” stated Raks Sondhi, Managing Director of Independent Reserve in Singapore.
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