Brațul de custodie cripto al Standard Chartered, Zodia se lansează în Singapore

Brațul de custodie cripto al Standard Chartered, Zodia se lansează în Singapore

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Zodia Custody, custodele criptomonedei deținut de Standard Chartered, a anunțat marți că își lansează serviciile în Singapore pentru instituțiile financiare, a informat CNBC. Standard Chartered este un conglomerat bancar multinațional cu sediul în Marea Britanie, cu active totale de 838.7 miliarde USD în iulie 2023.

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Zodia a spus că este prima entitate deținută de o bancă care oferă servicii de custodie criptografică pentru clienții instituționali din Singapore.

Singapore is moving to the “next level of maturity” in regulating crypto and developing central bank digital currencies (CBDC), Zodia Chief Executive Officer Julian Sawyer told CNBC .

Last Wednesday, Zodia said it received an in-principle approval from Abu Dhabi to pursue regulated over-the-counter crypto broker-dealer activities in the United Arab Emirates capital.

Earlier in February, Zodia announced a joint venture with financial services firm SBI Holdings for custody services in Japan.

Standard Chartered launched Zodia in July 2021 with Chicago-based financial services firm Northern Trust.

Several major cryptocurrency firms with a global reach have recently expanded their presence in Singapore. Gemini, the cryptocurrency exchange founded by the Winklevoss brothers, announced in June that it’s growing its headcount in the city-state to operate as an expansion hub in the Asia-Pacific.

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