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Markets

First Mover Asia: Singapore's Lightbulb Capital Balances the 3 Parts of ESG Investing. Will the DeFi World Care?; Bitcoin, Ether Fall

The crypto world has focused more heavily on environmental issues than the social and governance aspects of different projects; major cryptos were in the red on Sunday as the Russian invasion intensified.

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Finance

BC Group, Archax, InvestaX Form Consortium on Security Tokens Globally

The consortium wants to tackle cross-border technical and regulatory interoperability for security tokens.

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Markets

Foundation Focused on UST Stablecoin Raises $1B in LUNA Sale

The fresh funding will go toward a new reserve to help strengthen the peg for the UST stablecoin.

Terraform Labs CEO Do Kwon on CoinDesk TV in December.

Markets

Amber Group Raises $200M in Temasek-Led Round at $3B Valuation

The Singapore-based liquidity provider and trading infrastructure firm's valuation has tripled in less than a year.

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Videos

HK Watchdog’s NFT Warning; DBS Plans Crypto Expansion

Hong Kong watchdog calls NFTs and the metaverse a “must watch” threat. Singaporean banking giant to open retail digital asset trading desk. Bitcoin decoupling from tech stocks. We’ll have more on those stories and other news shaping the cryptocurrency and blockchain world in this episode of “The Daily Forkast.”

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Finance

DBS Plans to Launch Retail Digital Assets Trading Desk by Year End

DBS CEO Piyush Gupta says there’s a lot of work to be done, but the bank expects platform to be live by end of 2022.

Piyush Gupta, chief executive officer of DBS Group Holdings

Finance

Crypto Trading Volume Revs Up at Singapore's DBS Bank

DBS Digital Exchange saw its – albeit modest – trading volume in Q4 2021 grow to $595.5 million, more than double the preceding three quarters.

A DBS Bank branch in Singapore (Lauryn Ishak/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Videos

BIS Hong Kong and Singapore Plans, South Korean Police Work With Interpol

BIS unveils plans for Hong Kong and Singapore in 2022. Korean police work with Interpol on bitcoin phishing case. OpenSea NFT marketplace hacked for 332 ETH. We’ll have more on those stories and other news shaping the cryptocurrency and blockchain world in this episode of "The Daily Forkast."

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Policy

Singapore Looks to Curb Crypto Ads

The country's central bank issued guidelines to limit crypto ads in public spaces and media.

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Finance

Sygnum Valued at $800M in $90M Funding Round: Report

The crypto company said it will use the funds for new offerings including yield-generating products and asset-management products for institutional clients.

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