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MAS expands definition of retail investors that crypto players can service, guidelines in effect from mid-2024

Nicole Lim
Nicole Lim • 2 min read
MAS expands definition of retail investors that crypto players can service, guidelines in effect from mid-2024
Singaporeans and non-Singaporeans will be subject to the MAS’s consumer access measures if they want to engage a local crypto firm. Photo: Bloomberg
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Final regulations for digital payment token service providers (DPTSPs) have been laid out by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), in which firms will have to apply consumer access measures to all retail investors, regardless of their residency. 

This means that Singaporeans and non-Singaporeans alike who are interested to engage with the services provided by cryptocurrency firms regulated in the city-state, will be subject to the central bank’s guidelines of consumer access measures. 

This is according to the central bank’s second and final phase of the responses to feedback on its proposed regulations for DPTSPs that were launched in October 2022. The guidelines will take effect in phases from mid-2024. 

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