Singapore’s financial regulator and the central bank have pledged to be “brutal and unrelentingly hard” on any “bad behavior” from the cryptocurrency industry.
The comments come from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS)’s chief fintech officer Sopnendu Mohanty, açıklayan in an interview that “if somebody has done a bad thing, we are brutal and unrelentingly hard.”
Ayrıca, düzenleyiciyi kriptoya yeterince dostane davranmadığı için eleştiren ve bunun yerine piyasanın meşruiyetini sorgulayan bazı kripto piyasası katılımcılarının söylemlerine de karşılık verdi ve şunları söyledi:
“Birçok kripto para birimi tarafından dostane olmadığımız için çağrıldık, cevabım şu oldu: Ne için dostane? Gerçek bir ekonomi için dost mu yoksa gerçek olmayan bir ekonomi için mi dost?”
Fintech şefi, dünyanın "özel para biriminde kaybolduğuna" ve bu durumun arkasındaki nedenin bu olduğuna inanıyor daha geniş piyasa çalkantısı. Mohanty added the city-state enacted an “extremely draconian” and “painfully slow” due diligence process for licensing crypto businesses in response to the conservative stance the regulator has toward crypto.
Singapur introduced licensing for crypto firms in January 2020 and has been stringent on which companies can be approved for a license. Cointelegraph reported in December 2022 that the MAS had 100'den fazla lisans için geri alınan onaylar Başvuruda bulunan firmalardan.
In January, cryptocurrency providers were barred from advertising their services in public areas such as public transportation and extended to public websites as well as print, broadcast and social media.
MAS is extending its ability to police crypto businesses, too. In April, düzenleyici yeni gereklilikleri kabul etti for firms to obtain a license and be subject to Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Combating the Financing of Terrorism requirements if they wanted to provide services outside of the country.
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Hem düşük vergileri hem de şehir devletinin kötü olduğu algısı nedeniyle Singapur'da birçok kripto işletmesi kuruldu. kripto dostu olanlardan biri but the regulatory tightening suggests that is changing as the country focuses on its merkez bankası dijital para birimi (CBDC).
On Tuesday, payment systems provider the Mojaloop Foundation açıldı a CBDC Center of Excellence (COE) in Singapore, which sees MAS on its Working Group and Mohanty as a board adviser.
With the opening of the COE, Mohanty thinks a state-backed alternative cryptocurrency could be launched within three years.
The COE is aimed at reducing costs and inefficiencies of payment platforms and cross-border payments. Mohanty said he welcomed the move as a “step forward into the future of financial services”.
Source: https://cointelegraph.com/news/brutal-and-unrelentingly-hard-singapore-regulator-s-clampdown-on-crypto