Crypto / Digital Assets

Crypto / Digital Assets

Japan’s Soramitsu to Study CBDC in Vietnam, Fiji, Philippines

By Editors | 27/06/2022

Japan’s METI has selected Soramitsu to conduct CBDC feasibility studies in other APAC countries, building on its work in Cambodia and Laos.

Crypto / Digital Assets

Chinese Courts Rule Sales Agreement Involving Crypto as Invalid

By Editors | 26/06/2022

The court said virtual currencies are not legal tender, referencing the 2017 declaration from the PBOC. A higher court upheld the ruling.

AML / KYC

Hong Kong VASP Regime to Take Effect on 1 March 2023

By Natalie Curtis | 26/06/2022

The government acknowledges that the VASP regime will be more rigorous and comprehensive than those in Singapore, UK and Japan.

Crypto / Digital Assets

Bitcoin Consumes Less Energy than Classical Payments: Report

By Mark Johnston | 25/06/2022

Research report finds that the Lightning network enables a single Bitcoin transaction to become 194 million times more energy-efficient than a classical payment.

Crypto / Digital Assets

ADDX, CCB Partner to Enable Chinese Offshore Investments

By Editors | 24/06/2022

The CCB agreement allows ADDX to operationalise an arrangement with ICHAM to channel QDLP funds from mainland investors into overseas digital securities.

Fintech / Regtech

Mojaloop Launches CBDC Center of Excellence in Singapore

By Editors | 24/06/2022

MAS welcomed the Center of Excellence, describing Mojaloop’s efforts as “a step forward into the future of financial services”.

Enforcement

Korean Prosecutors Impose Flight Ban on Terra Employees

By Editors | 23/06/2022

The travel ban is meant to prevent dozens of Terraform Labs employees in Korea from leaving the country to avoid being summoned for questioning.

Crypto / Digital Assets

BIS Innovation Hub Outlines Lessons from CBDC Experiments

By Manesh Samtani | 23/06/2022

The report covers four experiments, Project Inthanon-LionRock, Project Jura, Project Dunbar, and Project mBridge.

Crypto / Digital Assets

MAS Grants Three More In-Principle Approvals to Crypto Firms

By Manesh Samtani | 22/06/2022

Deputy PM Heng Swee Keat said in-principle approvals were being issued to three more DPT licence applicants, later identified as Crypto.com, Genesis and Sparrowtech.