Author: Cointelegraph By Ezra Reguerra

Singapore’s central bank has signaled an upcoming shakeout of unregulated stablecoins as the country moves to protect the integrity of assets within its financial ecosystem.  In a keynote speech at the Singapore FinTech Festival on Thursday, Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) managing director Chia Der Jiun warned that “unregulated stablecoins have a patchy record of…
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Japan’s largest stock-exchange operator weighs new restrictions on publicly listed companies that pivot their core business into buying and holding crypto, signaling a potential shift in one of the most active markets for digital-asset treasury (DAT) firms.  Citing anonymous sources familiar with internal deliberations, Bloomberg reported that Japan Exchange Group (JPX) is exploring stricter scrutiny…
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Japan’s first domestic stablecoin issuer said digital asset companies may soon become significant players in the country’s sovereign debt market, potentially reshaping monetary policy. JPYC, the Tokyo-based company behind Japan’s first yen-pegged stablecoin, said issuers may evolve into major buyers of Japanese government bonds (JGBs) as their reserves increase. In comments reported by Reuters, JPYC…
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Morgan Stanley strategists say the crypto market has entered the “fall season” in Bitcoin’s four-year cycle, advising investors to harvest their gains before the potential onset of winter.  In a podcast episode titled Crypto Goes Mainstream, Denny Galindo, an investment strategist at Morgan Stanley Wealth Management, said that historical data indicates a consistent three-up, one-down…
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Argentina’s federal judiciary ordered a freeze of assets belonging to US promoter Hayden Davis and two alleged intermediaries tied to the collapsed Libra token, deepening an investigation into one of Latin America’s biggest crypto scandals. The order, issued by Judge Marcelo Martínez de Giorgi, reportedly covers digital wallets, bank accounts and real-estate assets of Davis,…
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Stablecoin payment company Transak has secured new state Money Transmitter Licenses (MTLs) in Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, South Carolina, Vermont and Pennsylvania, expanding its US footprint as regulatory fragmentation continues to define how crypto payment companies operate across the country, according to a Tuesday announcement shared with Cointelegraph. The approvals bring Transak’s total to 11 licensed…
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Brazil’s central bank completed rules that bring crypto companies under banking-style oversight, classifying stablecoin transactions and certain self-custody wallet transfers as foreign-exchange operations.  Under Resolutions 519, 520 and 521, published Monday, the Banco Central do Brasil (BCB) established operational standards and authorization procedures for what it calls Sociedades Prestadoras de Serviços de Ativos Virtuais (SPSAVs),…
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While the rest of the crypto space has entered a slump, traders are banking on privacy tokens with Zcash leading the charge.  CoinMarketCap data shows that Zcash (ZEC) climbed to a high of $655 earlier today, reaching a market capitalization of approximately $10.6 billion. At the time of writing, the rally had cooled off and…
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United States spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) recorded a $239.9 million net inflow on Thursday, ending a six-day slump of outflows draining almost $1.4 billion from the market.  According to data from Farside Investors, the reversal came after a turbulent week of profit-taking driven by macroeconomic uncertainty, which led to redemptions across the largest institutional…
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