Singapore News
Hong Kong Reopens Investment Immigration with Crypto, Embraces Bitcoin to Rival Singapore and Dubai
Following an eight year pause, Hong Kong has restarted its investment immigration program with a new minimum entry threshold and a broadened...
Circle to End Support for Consumer Accounts in Strategic Shift
Stablecoin issuer Circle has reportedly notified its users that it will cease its support for consumer accounts. “As part of Circle’s st...
Singapore Launches Cross-Border Crypto Projects With Europe and Japan
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has launched Project Guardian by collaborating with 15 financial institutions, including the Finan...
Singapore plans joint crypto pilots with Japan, Switzerland and UK
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), the country’s central bank and financial regulator, is planning to start crypto-related coopera...
Bitcoin-friendly El Salvador can become the ‘Singapore of the Americas’: VanEck advisor
El Salvador can follow Singapore’s lead and become a financial center in the Americas, according to Gabor Gurbacs, strategy advisor of inv...
Singapore court authorizes freeze order attached to wallets as soulbound NFT
The Singapore High Court has allowed financial investigations firm Intelligent Sanctuary (iSanctuary) to attach nonfungible tokens (NFTs) co...
Singapore Launches Dedicated Task Forces to Fight Tech and Crypto Crimes
Singapore has established task forces to tackle rising crypto crimes and other illicit activities in the field of technology. Technology has...
Upbit Secures Conditional Approval from Singapore’s Financial Regulator
Cryptocurrency exchange Upbit has received in-principle approval from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) to continue offering digital...
South Korean exchange Upbit gets initial license nod from Singapore
The Singapore entity for Upbit, South Korea’s largest exchange by volume, has been given in-principal approval for a Major Payment Institu...
Ripple Scores Two Wins in One Day Amid Singapore Licence Approval and Legal Victory
The wins keep piling up for Ripple Labs (XRP), as the international payments project secures a Singapore licence on the same day the Securit...
XRP Rallies Amid Singapore License Approval, SEC Appeals Rejection
XRP, the native token of the Ripple protocol, is up nearly 4% over the past 24 hours, trading at $0.528 at the time of writing. This is desp...
Ripple gets formal approval for Singapore payments license
Ripple says it received a license to operate as a major payments institution from Singapore’s central bank allowing it to continue ope...