THELOGICALINDIAN - The Monetary Authority of Singapore MAS has proposed changes to its accepted regulations which are accepted to lower the bazaar access for blockchain accompanying exchanges
According to reports, MAS – which is Singapore’s axial coffer and banking regulator – has issued a appointment cardboard in which it is reviewing the accepted authoritative framework which has been in abode back 2002. This is to board the demands of a activating banking casework landscape. All banking institutions and added absorbed parties accept been arrive to abide accounting comments to the cardboard by 22 June 2018.
The ascendancy has declared that the accepted authoritative framework cannot handle the demands of new business models that await on arising technologies.
One of these changes is blockchain technology and its accompanying services, referenced in the appointment cardboard as “new business models in trading platforms, including trading accessories that accomplish use of blockchain technology, or platforms that acquiesce peer-to-peer trading after the captivation of intermediaries”.
The primary change proposed by MAS in its consultation paper is the move to a three-tier arrangement for its additional class of operators, the accustomed bazaar operators (RMO).
At the moment MAS places operators beneath two categories – the accustomed exchanges (AE) and the RMOs.
A revised arrangement would abode ambition bazaar operators with bound admission to Singapore-based retail investors beneath Tier 1, bazaar operators that authorize beneath the accepted RMO anatomy in Tier 2 and bazaar operators that accept a decidedly abate calibration of business compared to added accustomed operators beneath the accepted AE and RMO administration in Tier 3.
Other proposed changes are to accept bargain basic requirements, simpler requirements for regulations, technology accident administration and outsourcing. These proposals all point to the adaptation of new and abate operators including exchanges in the growing blockchain space.
Singapore has already emphasized how it does not appearance cryptocurrencies as a threat and its hands-off access to cryptocurrency regulation in the accomplished has helped position it as a abstinent administration in the space. The changes to its framework could accomplish it alike added attractive.
Do you anticipate these authoritative proposals will be auspiciously adopted in Singapore? Are they abundant to position it as a anchorage for cryptocurrency exchanges? Let us apperceive what you anticipate in the comments below.
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