2021-1-29 21:42 |
A former deputy governor of the People’s Bank of China compared notes with the chairman of the Monetary Authority of Singapore.
Similar to Notcoin - TapSwap on Solana Airdrops In 2024
|
Hong Kong investors are moving their gold offshore as China’s new national security law prompts fears of financial censorship. Some 10% of private holdings have been moved to safer jurisdictions such as Singapore and Switzerland since the beginning of protests in Hong Kong last year.
2020-8-10 10:30 | |
|
|
East Asian nations are forging ahead with their digital currency and blockchain plans, with most being largely lenient towards large-cap digital assets like Bitcoin. The post Bitcoin-friendly Singapore wants to team up with China for “Digital Yuan,” here’s why appeared first on CryptoSlate.
2020-6-23 23:00 | |
|
|
Singapore’s central bank is looking to join forces with China in exploring central bank digital currencies.
2020-6-20 20:35 | |
|
|
Top Chinese digital bank WeBank is partnering with OpenNodes to drive blockchain innovation among Singaporean universities.
2020-5-19 16:00 | |
|
|
Asia has been called the 'crypto-hub' of the world for a long time now. Countries like Japan, Singapore, South Korea, and China have all recorded significant growth in the space over the past few yearThe post Will Asia's tightening of crypto-regulations threaten its 'crypto-hub' position? appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2020-5-1 11:00 | |
|
|
Despite the coronavirus pandemic and the resulting financial crisis, at least 10 countries have made announcements regarding cryptocurrency regulation since our last regulatory roundup. They include Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, China, Spain, Germany, India, the Philippines, the U.
2020-4-6 08:30 | |
|
|
With nation-states like Singapore well into the development of its own CBDC and China set to launch its ‘DCEP’ this year, all eyes are on the United States Federal Reserve and the possibility of The post Ripple CEO claims XRP's demand won't be affected by USD-backed CBDC appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2020-2-18 16:00 | |
|
|
Binance cryptocurrency exchange has formally applied for a license that will enable it to operate in Singapore as a bitcoin (BTC) trading venue and crypto exchange in the region, in accordance with the recently implemented Payment Services Act (PSA), according to a South China Morning Post report on February 17, 2020.
2020-2-17 12:30 | |
|
|
The Wuhan coronavirus spread is gaining pace: with over 15,000 infected and nearly 400 people already dead, this epidemic can’t be ignored anymore. What is even more important, the virus has stepped way outside mainland China and was diagnosed in 20 countries around the globe including the USA, Japan, Thailand, Singapore, Hong Kong, Germany, France, […]
2020-2-7 12:30 | |
|
|
As Singapore’s Ambassador to the United States for 16 years and now its Ambassador-at-Large, Chan Heng Chee has been actively involved in mitigating the impact of escalating tensions between the U.
2020-2-7 01:15 | |
|
|
News. Bitcoin. com has initiated a regular roundup of cryptocurrency regulatory developments around the world. For the first edition, we cover six U. S. regulators and India’s decisions on the supreme court hearing and crypto bill.
2019-11-26 21:00 | |
|
|
CIMB Bank executes first trade financing transaction on iTrust blockchain - CryptoNinjas The Singapore branch of CIMB Bank (CIMB), a Malaysian universal bank headquartered in Kuala Lumpur and iTrust, a blockchain-powered trade financing platform, today announced they have successfully completed their first structured trade financing transaction using iTrust’s platform.
2019-10-17 17:18 | |
|
|
The basket of fiat currencies in the line up to back Facebook's Libra "cryptocurrency" may not include the Chinese Yuan. According to Bloomberg, the likely backers include the US Dollar, the Euro, the British pound, The Japanese Yen, and the Singapore dollar.
2019-9-10 14:02 | |
|
|
Two years ago, on September 4, 2017, the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) shut down local cryptocurrency exchanges over concerns that unregulated assets like bitcoin allow residents to bypass strict capital controls.
2019-9-5 22:19 | |
|
|
Central banks worldwide are examining the possibility of issuing a central bank digital currency (CBDC), with some already testing theirs for different uses. Countries that have advanced their digital currency projects include China, Singapore, Canada, the Bahamas, Thailand, Uruguay, and Sweden.
2019-8-15 09:53 | |
|
|
A weakening Chinese Yuan (Renminbi) is helping to fuel the bullish sentiment of bitcoin, according to Taimur Baig of DBS’ Singapore unit. The chief economist told Financial Times that the recent run-up in the bitcoin price took place after the People’s Bank of China (PBoC) forced the value of the renminbi below $0.
2019-8-14 17:00 | |
|
|
Businesses in Singapore can now have faster payments for goods purchased and services availed in China, thanks to InstaReM. Singapore-headquartered InstaReM is a digital cross-border payments company with a presence in over 40 countries, across Asia-Pacific, North America, and Europe.
2019-8-2 16:10 | |
|
|
A growing number of governments have responded to Facebook’s cryptocurrency plans including China, France, India, Japan, South Korea, Russia, Singapore, Thailand, the U. K. , and the U. S. Several intergovernmental organizations have also weighed in such as the European Central Bank and the Bank of International Settlements.
2019-7-11 08:30 | |
|
|
Binance cryptocurrency exchange has announced the public launch of Binance Singapore, a fiat-to-crypto exchange that allows residents to buy and sell bitcoin (BTC), ether (ETH) and Binance coin (BNB) with Singapore dollars (SGD).
2019-7-11 20:00 | |
|
|
Coinspeaker Binance Singapore and Investor Vertex Establishes Fiat-to-Crypto Gateway to Set the Stage Beyond the IslandBinance has additional plans to grow the Singapore blockchain ecosystem with investment partners Vertex Ventures China as well as Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia and India ('Vertex').
2019-7-10 04:00 | |
|
|
Reports confirm Cailu, a Chinese blockchain media firm, raised $10 million USD in a series A round funding led by one of the top VC firms in Singapore, GCBI Ventures. The blockchain firm aims to improve the media content sharing protocols on the internet using the funds raised. The Series A round included a Singapore-based […]
2019-7-7 19:22 | |
|
|
Blockchain is one of the fastest growing skills among workers in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region, according to a LinkedIn report published Wednesday. LinkedIn analyzed the skills listed by its members from the APAC region over the last five years to identify the top 10 rising skills.
2019-6-19 12:52 | |
|
|
Accounting behemoth EY is putting wine on the blockchain. In a press release from last week (spotted by CoinDesk), the company announced it has developed a blockchain-powered platform for tracking the authenticity and origins of wine.
2019-5-28 12:18 | |
|
|
CryptoNinjas An international team of experienced blockchain entrepreneurs has joined forces to launch Blockchain Propulsion – a global accelerator program headquartered in Crypto Valley with ‘Propulsion Hubs’ in Switzerland, Brazil, UAE, India, and China.
2019-5-28 11:37 | |
|
|
By CCN. com: A police investigation involving bitcoin machines at Tampines One Mall in Singapore saved a 32-year-old man from scammers impersonating officials. They also helped a 49-year-old man not to transfer any more of his bitcoin to the alleged lying thieves.
2019-4-28 11:58 | |
|
|
In Malaysia, the blockchain-city of Melaka Straits City will be built. It is stated that this will be the further development of the smart city concept, which has already been partially implemented in several cities in China and India, as well as in Amsterdam, Stockholm, Singapore, Dubai and others. But in fact, a blockchain-Disneyland will […]
2019-4-25 18:07 | |
|
|
SINGAPORE – BitDeer. com, the leading computing power-sharing platform is announcing a strategic partnership with F2Pool, China’s earliest Bitcoin mining pool that has risen to a major international player in the space.
2019-3-9 14:29 | |
|
|
SINGAPORE – BitDeer. com, the leading computing power-sharing platform is announcing a strategic partnership with F2Pool, China’s earliest Bitcoin mining pool that has risen to a major international player in the space.
2019-3-8 14:07 | |
|
|
Ripple has announced the latest new partners in its global University Blockchain Research Initiative, which include universities in China, Singapore and Brazil
2019-2-7 20:41 | |
|
|
IBM has completed a trial of blockchain technology to track a shipment of mandarin oranges from China to Singapore ahead of Lunar New Year celebrations.
2019-2-1 04:30 | |
|
|
Huobi is back in Japan, this time as a fully regulated exchange under Japan's Financial Services Agency (FSA). Following its merger with BitTrade, Huobi Japan Holding Ltd.
2019-1-19 19:03 | |
|
|
With a rising middle class and a booming tech startup scene, Southeast Asia (SEA) sits where China did 10 years ago — on the cusp of a major economic boom fueled by the tech industry. The only questions over the last few years have been: When will the tipping point be reached, and when will SEA mature from a promising regional market into the next big world economy? I’ve seen promising signs that in 2019, our region may finally reach that tipping point.
2018-12-19 02:00 | |
|
|
As part of its desire to forge deeper ties with the Chinese government, Huobi Group, the parent company of digital asset platform Huobi, has formed a Communist Party committee in China, according to an announcement by the company.
2018-11-20 00:18 | |
|
|
What Is Huobi? Huobi is a Singapore-based cryptocurrency exchange created in 2013 by former Oracle engineer Leon Li. Originally based in China, the Huobi Foundation expanded to Singapore, South Korea, and Japan following China’s 2017 Bitcoin trade ban.
2018-11-18 22:56 | |
|
|
With contributing reporting from Jimmy Aki. Christine Lagarde, head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), suggested a new course of action for central banks around the world: turn their fiat currencies digital.
2018-11-15 22:38 | |
|
|
On November 7, South Korea’s cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb announced it had partnered with Asian e-commerce giant Qoo10 to provide a cryptocurrency payment service. Qoo10 is a leading South Korean e-commerce company in pan-Asian markets such as Singapore, Hong Kong, China, and Indonesia.
2018-11-9 18:22 | |
|
|
Підрозділ Vertex Ventures інвестиційного холдингу з Сінгапуру Temasek Holdings Private Limited вклав кошти в популярну крипто-платформу Binance. Ця інвестиція здійснена для спільного повномасштабного запуску Binance Singapore та інших платформ з підтримкою фіатних валют у Південно-Східній Азії.
2018-11-15 15:00 | |
|
|
Vertex Ventures invests in cryptocurrency exchange platform giant Binance to establish a fiat-to-crypto exchange service in Singapore. Vertex is a subsidiary of Temasek Holdings, and is Southeast Asia’s oldest venture-capital establishment.
2018-10-24 07:37 | |
|
|
Венчурное подразделение сингапурского инвестиционного холдинга Temasek Holdings Private Limited, Vertex Ventures, инвестировало в ведущую по суточному объему торгов биткоин-биржу Binance. Целью сотрудничества станет полномасштабный запуск Binance Singapore и других платформ с поддержкой фиатных валют в Южно-Восточной Азии, сообщает Reuters.
2018-10-23 13:44 | |
|
|
Leading cryptocurrency exchange desk Binance has received a backing from Singapore’s government-owned holding company Temasek Holdings. Vertex Ventures, Temasek’s venture capital arm, has made an investment in Binance to help develop a cryptocurrency-to-fiat exchange desk in Singapore, the company announced today.
2018-10-23 13:30 | |
|
|
A consortium backed by major Chinese corporations Tencent and Huawei will debut its new open source “blockchain ecosystem” FISCO BCOS at the Singapore Fintech Festival next month. BCOS is geared towards providing enterprise-grade distributed ledger (DLT) solutions.
2018-10-18 13:46 | |
|
|
Seba Crypto AG (SEBA) has raised 100 million Swiss francs ($103 million) for the creation of a regulated bank that lets customers trade fiat for digital currency. The Zug-based startup is headed by former UBS managers Guido Buehler, who serves as CEO, and Andreas Amschwand, who serves as chairman.
2018-9-27 22:14 | |
|
|
A leading Hong Kong jeweler will utilize blockchain technology to sell diamonds and other precious gems to customers, according to the South China Morning Post. Hong Kong Businesses Deploy Blockchain Chow Tai Fook, a Hong Kong-based jewelry retailer with locations in China, Vietnam and Singapore, has partnered with Everledger, a blockchain solutions provider, to promote transparency […] The post Hong Kong Jewelry Chain Adopts Blockchain for Authenticity Checks appeared first on CryptoSlate.
2018-9-14 10:00 | |
|
|
BlockShow Asia 2018 will return to Singapore in November 2018 to the Asia Blockchain Week bringing with it another chance to network, showcase and share the best that Blockchain world has to offer Asia is the world’s growth factory.
2018-9-8 19:09 | |
|
|
Hong Kong-based blockchain start-up named Crypto. com is set to launch Asia’s first cryptocurrency enabled Visa debit card. Per a report on South China Morning Post on September 5, 2018, the firm has applied for a license and plans to issue 100,000 cards globally over the next two months, starting with Singapore.
2018-9-7 13:00 | |
|
|
China’s latest crackdown on cryptocurrency trading won’t stop the determined few. China is set to lose the best and brightest of its current digital crop as they head off as crypto refugees.
2018-8-28 19:43 | |
|
|
Despite Bitcoin’s plummet to $6,600 (at time of writing), world governments and emerging economies remain invested in the idea of a blockchain-powered ecosystem supplemented with a decentralized currency framework.
2018-8-28 23:00 | |
|
|
In recent regulatory news, Chinese authorities have issued a warning seeking to encourage citizens to be skeptical regarding the promotional claims of illegal fundraising schemes operating with cryptocurrencies, Singapore Exchange and the Monetary Authority of Singapore have partnered with Anquan, Deloitte, and Nasdaq to settle tokenized securities using distributed ledger technology, and Hungary’s finance ministry […] The post Regulations Round-Up: Tokenized Securities in Singapore, China Warns of Illegal Fundraising appeared first on Bitcoin News.
2018-8-26 16:15 | |
|
|
Morpheus Labs, the full-stack Blockchain-Platform-as-a-Service provider based in Singapore, has entered into a commercial agreement with veriTAG to design and implement the latter’s veriHUB blockchain platform.
2018-8-25 22:03 | |
|
|
| Analogue Notcoin - TapSwap |
Opinion: From Brazil to Norway, there is plenty of evidence that governments are planning to use CBDCs to abuse their people.
Unpacking the Incoherence and Hubris of Modern Monetary Theory and Its Intersection with CBDCs and Bitcoin
The Reserve Bank of New Zealand opened a new consultation period on a central bank digital currency (CBDC) on April 17. The current stage of development seeks input on “high-level design options for digital cash.
Swiss National Bank (SNB) Chairman Thomas Jordan said the central bank “sees no need” to issue a central bank digital currency (CBDC) for public use despite the benefits of a wholesale version.
SWIFT said on March 25 that it discovered several applications for its central bank digital currency (CBDC) solution following a successful six-month test. The company did not create its own CBDC but instead developed an interlinking solution for existing CBDCs — dubbed the SWIFT connector.
In a recent meeting with the European Parliament’s Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, Piero Cipollone, a member of the ECB Executive Board, discussed the forthcoming digital euro, specifically its privacy features, infrastructure procurement, and operational standards.
Swiss banks, Cantons of Basel-City, and Zurich have successfully issued digital bonds using real CHF wholesale central bank digital currency (wCBDC) on SIX Digital Exchange (SDX). This marks the first-ever issuance of this kind, leveraging the Swiss National Bank’s (SNB) wCBDC.