Singapur'un en büyük bankası 100,000 müşterisi için kripto alım satım hizmetlerini genişletiyor

İstihbaratın hızlı genişlemesi kripto para birimi sektörü is ushering increasingly more mali institutions into offering crypto-related services and products for their clients, including Singapore’s largest banka dbs.

Indeed, DBS Group Holdings Ltd. has expanded access to kripto ticareti services for its 100,000 yatırımcıların that belong to the DBS Treasures section, Bloomberg en Natalie Ching Mun Choy rapor Eylül 23 üzerine.

This section of the bank’s operations covers wealthy clients with investable assets of at least $246,000, and the new development will allow them to trade cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Bitcoin Cash (BCH), Ve XRP, on DBS Digital Exchange.

From now on, these clients will be able to partake in the bank’s crypto trading operations with a minimum yatırım of $500. Beforehand, this option was only available to institutional and corporate investors, family offices, as well as clients of DBS Private Bank and DBS Treasures Private Clients. 

Crypto trading surges despite circumstances

This development arrives one month after DBS bank’s exchange reported a significant surge in the volume of crypto transactions carried out on its members-only platform for institutional and professional investors, more than quadrupling in June compared to April 2022, despite volatility in the crypto market.

Back in February 2022, the CEO of DBS, Piyush Gupta, outlined the bank’s plans to launch a retail crypto trading desk by the end of the year, devoting the first half of the year to improving access to the digital assets trading desk for its current clients.

In August 2021, the bank got the ‘in principle’ clearance from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) to provide crypto trading services to asset managers and businesses, after which it opened an institutional digital asset trading desk, as yüzgeç bildirilmiştir.

At the same time, Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Senior Minister and Minister in charge of the MAS, stressed that the watchdog was cautious about cryptocurrencies, reflected in its advice against any retail participation in trading such assets.

Earlier in June, the regulator’s CTO Sopnendu Mohanty related the MAS’s stance to be “acımasız ve amansızca sert” on the crypto sector’s bad actors, in addition to his questioning the value of private crypto assets and announcing a state-backed alternative.