HashKey Capital Singapore, an investment arm of Hong Kong-based HashKey Group, said on Friday that it received an in-principle approval for the Capital Markets Services license from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS).
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- When a full license is granted, it will allow HashKey Capital Singapore to offer services to institutional and accredited investors in the Lion City as a licensed fund manager, the company said in a statement.
- The move comes as Hong Kong, Singapore’s traditional rival in Asia for financial services, announced this week a series of policies to attract crypto firms in hopes to re-position itself as a digital assets hub.
- MAS, Singapore’s central bank, has recently been accelerating license approvals for crypto service providers.
- “Singapore is quickly becoming the region’s epicenter of Web3 innovation. Being recognized by the MAS as a licensed fund management company will allow HashKey Capital Singapore to contribute to and support the local Web3 community,” Deng Chao, CEO, HashKey Capital Singapore, said in the statement.
- HashKey Capital said it has invested in over 500 global projects that include Web 3.0 infrastructure, metaverse and non-fungible tokens (NFTs).
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