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    • The use of one or multiple credit and/or debit cards that are linked to a VA wallet to withdraw large amounts of fiat currency (crypto-to-plastic), or funds for purchasing VAs are sourced from cash deposits into credit cards.
    • Transactions by a customer involving more than one type of VA, despite additional transaction fees, and especially those VAs that provide higher anonymity, such as anonymity-enhanced cryptocurrency (AEC) or privacy coins.
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    • Financial Stability Reviews

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    • As an asset class, crypto-assets have also seen rising interest from investors.
    • . -------- Global Financial and Economic Environment 17 Chart 1.17 Total crypto-asset market capitalisation has risen rapidly since 2020 Chart 1.18 as have trading volumes Crypto-asset Market Capitalisation Crypto-asset Daily Trading Volumes, 20-day Moving Average Source:
    • warrants heightened surveillance Crypto-assets have gained increasing prominence with the rapid rise in crypto-asset market capitalisations and trading volumes over the past two years (Charts 1.17 and 1.18).
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    • The Association of Cryptocurrency Enterprises and Start-ups, Singapore (ACCESS), the Singapore Blockchain Association (SBA) and the Singapore FinTech Association (SFA) will be organising workshops on licensing under the Payment Services Act 2019, which will be conducted by MAS representatives.
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    • After a few boom-and-bust cycles, Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are near all-time highs, attracting investment from former sceptics.
    • While still in its infancy, DeFi has contributed to soaring valuations in the crypto markets and its implications for the financial sector can hardly be overstated.
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    • Parliamentary Replies

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    • DeFi is a fast-growing part of the crypto-asset ecosystem. However, most DeFi applications are less than two years old. 6.      The viability of DeFi has not been proven and its risks are not yet fully clear. MAS has been closely studying developments in DeFi to assess its potential for broader use.
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    • Pro-Tect offers a complete suite of institutional digital assets services including Digital Securities and Crypto Management solutions.
    • Propine provides the highest levels of certified security and compliant digital asset custody solution for safeguarding multiple asset classes including digital securities, cryptocurrencies, stablecoins, NFTs, and Fiat on a single integrated custody platform.
    • Merkle Science is a leading provider in the crypto sector with presence from APAC to EMEA and the Americas. The platform and product roadmap are consistently best-in-class, with a proprietary for research and Behavioral Rule Engine development field of anti-money laundering.
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    • Their two core businesses, HydraX Trading and HydraX OTC, seek to tackle existing problems for cryptocurrency traders, in the exchange-based and OTC spaces respectively.
    • Billon's technology is the first and only blockchain, which encodes national (i.e., fiat, not crypto) currencies, is fully regulatory compliant, with performance and economics that support micro- payments and mass consumer-scale applications.
    • The platform provides professional trading tools previously unavailable for cryptocurrency traders. These include charting, trade execution, portfolio monitoring, transfers of assets, customisable scanning, real time alerts, and automated algorithmic trading.
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    • Pro-Tect offers a complete suite of institutional digital assets services including Digital Securities and Crypto Management solutions.
    • Propine provides the highest levels of certified security and compliant digital asset custody solution for safeguarding multiple asset classes including digital securities, cryptocurrencies, stablecoins, NFTs, and Fiat on a single integrated custody platform.
    • Merkle Science is a leading provider in the crypto sector with presence from APAC to EMEA and the Americas. The platform and product roadmap are consistently best-in-class, with a proprietary for research and Behavioral Rule Engine development field of anti-money laundering.
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    • Equity funding for Singapore FinTechs has grown  to a 5-year high of US$3.9 billion in 2021 Source: Business Times Singapore “Singapore fintechs draw US$3.9b for 2021; crypto, blockchain segment thumps payment startups” (reporting on data from KPMG’s Pulse of Fintech report), 8 February 2022. .
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    • The multi-format conference will feature speeches, panel discussions, demos, fireside chats, networking, and exhibitions, and cover topics such as FinTech, payments, lending, crypto-currency, and regulations.