THELOGICALINDIAN - Mr Tharman Shanmugaratnam Singapores Deputy Prime Minister Coordinating Minister for Economic and Social Policies and Chairman of Singapores banking babysitter the Monetary Authority of Singapore MAS has responded to a catechism pertaining to MASs assessments and authoritative intentions apropos cryptocurrencies and antecedent bread offerings ICOs Mr Shanmugaratnam replied by advertence that the Singaporean regulator did not admit bitcoin as acknowledged breakable and that the MAS will acceptable seek to adapt companies accouterment bitcoin acquittal casework rather than the cryptocurrency itself
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The MAS Does Not Intend to Develop a Distinct Regulatory Apparatus for Cryptocurrency
In acknowledgment to a parliamentary question apropos the MAS’s authoritative abstracts and assessments pertaining to cryptocurrency, Mr. Shanmugaratnam declared that the MAS has bent cryptocurrency and ICOs to abatement alfresco of its accepted banking legislation.
The catechism to which the MAS administrator responded asked “whether the Government is befitting clue of the use/investment of cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin in Singapore; (b) how do cryptocurrencies affect our accounts industry; (c) whether studies are actuality conducted to appraise the problems and risks of using/investing in cryptocurrencies; and (d) whether authoritative frameworks are all-important in the future.”
“MAS has been ecology the use of… basic currencies.” – Mr. Shanmugaratnam, Chairman of MAS
The MAS administrator responded with a cardinal of points, aboriginal advertence that Singapore’s axial coffer has assured that cryptocurrency is not acknowledged tender. The agent prime abbot authentic acknowledged breakable as “the average of barter is accustomed by law to be accurate for affair a banking obligation.”
Mr. Shanmugaratnam states that the “MAS has been ecology the use of… basic currencies.” The agent prime abbot states that the banking regulator has bent that basic bill “use is not accustomed in Singapore” ciphering that “about 20 Singapore retailers like restaurants and online shops currently acquire bitcoins”, abacus that “in the Singapore[an] banking industry, use of basic currencies as a approach of acquittal is not significant.” The MAS is absolute that cryptocurrency “trading is about for abstract advance purposes,” acquainted about that Singapore’s trading aggregate is decidedly lower than that which is produced by the ascendant markets of the U.S., Japan, and Hong Kong.
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Regarding regulations, Mr. Shanmugaratnam declared that “MAS does not regulate… basic currencies… However… regulates the activities that beleaguer them if those activities abatement aural our added accepted abuttals as banking regulator.” Mr. Shanmugaratnam additionally appear that the MAS is currently developing new regulations for acquittal casework advised to abode the money bed-making and agitator costs risks associated with “the bearding attributes of [cryptocurrency] transactions.”
The agent prime abbot adumbrated that a agnate authoritative access would likely be activated to ICOs, advertence that the “MAS has not issued new legislation accurately for ICOs”. Mr. Shanmugaratnam common that agenda tokens through ICOs that are bent to comprise balance will be accountable to the authoritative requirements of balance – including accepting to annals a prospectus, access agent or barter abettor licenses, and binding acquiescence with anti-money bed-making and anti-terror costs laws. Mr. Shanmugaratnam assured that the budgetary ascendancy of Singapore “will abide to adviser the developments of [the ICO industry], and accede added targeted legislation if necessary.”
In contempo weeks, letters accept abundant that abundant bitcoin-based startups domiciled in Singapore accept accomplished coffer annual closures due to ambiguity pertaining to the acknowledged cachet of cryptocurrency. The account comes about two months afterwards the MAS aboriginal approved to clarify its authoritative position apropos ICOs, asserting that badge accounted to comprise balance would abatement beneath the ambit of absolute regulations.
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