Digital Assets Bank to expand its operations in Singapore

Swiss digital assets bank goes with the name Sygnum and has been operating in Switzerland and Singapore Digital assets management service provider bank Sygnum up to expand its area of operations. Curr...

Singapore Billionaire Ron Sim’s Revamps V3 Group As Unit Revives Hong Kong IPO

Massage chair maker OSIM is V3 Group’s flagship brand. Courtesy of V3 Group Billionaire Ron Sim has revamped his privately held V3 Group into three core businesses after its consumer brands segm...

Sygnum gets regulatory approval to expand services in Singapore

Sygnum announced on March 8th that it has secured approval from the Monetary Authority of Singapore to expand the repertoire of its services. Sygnum Singapore has been operating in the country under a...

Sygnum Gets Hold Of In-Principle Consent In Singapore

Prior to its newest approval, Sygnum Singapore only has right to provide asset management services with its CMS license. The announcement came on Tuesday that Sygnum Singapore got in-principle approva...

Crypto Bank Sygnum to Expand Digital Asset Offerings in Singapore After Approval

Sygnum, a Swiss crypto bank, has received in-principle approval from the Monetary Authority of Singapore to expand its digital asset offerings on 8 March. Sygnum, which already held Singapore’s Capita...

Singapore bans Russian cryptocurrency transactions

Singapore has banned cryptocurrency transactions that are aimed at aiding Russia to circumvent sanctions. The country has made it illegal to enter into or facilitate all transactions that might aid Ru...

Crypto Bank Sygnum Singapore Secures Additional Regulatory Approval

Sygnum Singapore – a subsidiary of Switzerland’s Sygnum Bank – received in-principle approval from the country’s top financial regulator to conduct three additional activities. These include providing...

Singapore Startup Joins Unicorn Club After Qatar Investment Authority-Led Funding

Insider cofounders. COURTESY OF INSIDER Insider, a B2B software-as-a-service startup headquartered in Singapore, has raised $121 million in a Series D funding round led by Qatar’s sovereign-weal...

Singapore stops Russian cryptocurrency and NFT transactions

TL;DR Breakdown Singapore locks down Russian cryptocurrency and non-fungible token (NFT) transactions. The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) releases new regulations. The regulations prevent money...

Russian crypto transaction suffer another blow in Singapore 

Crypto transactions from Russian users in Singapore will face restrictions  Singapore is the first South-east Asian country to impose sanctions on the war mammoth  Export controls on items will be pla...

Singapore Suspends Crypto Transactions As It Complies With Russia Sanction Rules ⋆ ZyCrypto

Advertisement &nbsp &nbsp Russia has been getting confronted by firm criticism of its invasion of Ukraine. Singapore has joined other concerned countries to impose sanctions o...

Singapore Billionaire Peter Lim Eyes Investment In Spanish Fertility Firm IVI-RMA Amid Buyout Bids

Peter Lim looks on prior to the start of the La Liga match between Valencia CF and Real Madrid CF at … [+] Estadi de Mestalla on January 4, 2015 in Valencia, Spain. Manuel Queimadelos Alonso/Get...

Singapore VC Lightbulb Capital Balances the 3 Parts of ESG Investing. Will the DeFi World Care?; Bitcoin, Ether Fall

“We don’t take this decision lightly. Mastercard has operated in Russia for more than 25 years. We have nearly 200 colleagues there who make this company so critical to many stakeholders. As we ...

Singapore to Impose Restrictions on Russian Financial and Crypto Transactions – Bitcoin News

In a rare move, Singapore is going to introduce restrictions on certain Russian financial transactions and crypto operations aimed at evading sanctions. The decision comes amid officially expressed co...

Beam Suntory Ups Focus On Japanese Whiskies In Airports, Led By Yamazaki 55

Japanese whiskies are making a bigger splash in airport retail. getty Beam Suntory is preparing to bring a series of showcase Japanese whisky pop-ups to its top duty-free and travel-retail locations a...

Pushing Russia out of crypto one country at a time: Singapore, Switzerland and Japan will join in the sanctions

Ukraine’s call on banning Russians from the crypto market was rejected by crypto exchange giants like Binance and Coinbase unless law required it. Even though there are no official decrees forcing exc...

Crypto Hub Singapore Slams Russia With Sanctions

In a rare move, Singapore introduced sanctions against Russia over its Ukrainian invasion. The sanctions include restriction over the Russian Central Bank, cryptocurrency transactions, an export ban o...

Singapore Court Freezes $7 Million in Stolen Cryptocurrencies

A Singapore court has ruled in favor of an American entrepreneur who had more than $7 million in cryptocurrencies stolen from him and ordered two local crypto exchanges to stop unidentified perpetrato...

Singapore’s ST Telemedia Buys Stake In Philippines’ Globe Data Center Unit In Deal Valued At $350 Million

A technician walks past computer racks at facility owned by ST Telemedia Global Data Centres … [+] Courtesy of ST Telemedia Global Data Centers Singapore-based ST Telemedia Global Data Centres h...

Billionaire Wee Cho Yaw’s UOL Expands Global Hotel Footprint, Betting On Post-Pandemic Recovery

The Pan Pacific hotel Singapore. Andrew Woodley/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images UOL Group—controlled by billionaire Wee Cho Yaw—is gearing up for a post-pandemic recovery in t...

Why Taiwan’s UMC Is Building A $5 Billion Chip-Making Factory In Singapore

A silicon wafer. Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg Taiwan’s United Microelectronics Corp. plans to invest $5 billion in a chip-making factory in Singapore, the company’s second in the city-state, amid surging...

Billionaire Kwek Leng Beng’s City Developments Ramps Up Singapore Projects As Home Sales Hit Record

Billionaire Kwek Leng Beng, chairman of City Developments, speaks during a news conference in … [+] Singapore, on August 11, 2017. Nicky Loh/Bloomberg City Developments—controlled by billionaire...

Billionaire Lim Kok Thay’s Genting Adding Electronic Betting In The U.S. As Casino Operator Narrows Losses

Lim Kok Thay, chairman and CEO of Genting Bhd, reacts during a Bloomberg Television interview in … [+] Singapore, on December 14, 2018. Nicky Loh/Bloomberg Genting Bhd—controlled by Malaysian bi...

3-month-old Stealth Singapore GameFi Startup Raises Seed Funding of $2.7 million

[PRESS RELEASE – Please Read Disclaimer] Singapore-based game finance (GameFii) blockchain startup, Ethlas, announced on Feb. 15 that it has secured $2.7 million in seed funding from investors such as...

Singapore Tycoon Chua Thian Poh’s Ho Bee Land Buys London Skyscraper ‘The Scalpel’ For Over $960 Million

LONDON, ENGLAND – JUNE 19: A general view of St Andrew Undershaft church, the Scalpel, 52 Lime … [+] Street currently under construction, the Lloyd’s building (C) and the Cheesegrate...

Portugal’s EDP Renewables To Invest Over $7 Billion Across Asia Pacific After Buying Singapore’s Sunseap

A solar energy and wind turbine farm producing renewable green energy. getty EDP Renewables said Thursday it will invest as much as S$10 billion ($7.4 billion) in clean energy assets across Asia Pacif...

Indonesian Tycoon Sukanto Tanoto’s Pacific Eagle Buys Prime Singapore Shopping Mall For $645 Million

Singapore skyline cityscape at night. getty Pacific Eagle Real Estate has agreed to buy the Tanglin Shopping Centre in Singapore’s Orchard Road shopping belt for S$868 million ($645 million) as the de...

Singapore Crypto Firm Amber Group Hits $3 Billion Valuation In Funding Round Led By Temasek

Amber Group achieved the unicorn status last June. Amber Group Amber Group has raised $200 million in a fundraising round led by Singapore’s state-owned investment firm Temasek, boosting the valuation...

Singapore hopes to ease Covid measures after omicron peaks: Lawrence Wong

SINGAPORE — Singapore’s Finance Minister Lawrence Wong said the country is “quietly confident” about handling the highly transmissible omicron variant, despite the recent surge in Co...

Taiwan, Singapore Are Not Stablecoin Fans; Major Cryptos Decline as Russia Invasion Looms

Good morning. Here’s what’s happening: Market moves: Bitcoin and most major cryptos sank amid escalating tensions on the Russia-Ukraine border. A speech by Russian President Vladimir Putin drew the wo...

Singapore’s GLP To Invest $13 Billion In Maiden Data Center Projects In Japan As Digital Economy Booms

Network and internet communication technology concept, data center interior, server racks with … [+] telecommunication equipment in server room getty Singapore-based real estate developer and as...

Is it safe to travel if I’m vaccinated and recovered from Covid

Millions of people are now vaccinated, boosted and newly recovered from Covid-19 infections caused by the omicron variant. They have what some outside the medical community have labeled “super i...