Hyperliquid added to Singapore’s Investor Alert Checklist
The Financial Authority of Singapore (MAS), the city-state’s central financial institution and monetary regulator, has added decentralized perpetuals change Hyperliquid to its Investor Alert Checklist.
The entry, added on Friday, contains the Hyper Basis web site and the Hyperliquid buying and selling app.
The Investor Alert Checklist is a client safety measure that identifies entities which may be wrongly perceived as licensed or regulated by MAS. Inclusion on the record doesn’t represent a ban or enforcement motion.
MAS added crypto change Bybit to the record on June 17 and KuCoin and Bitget additionally seem.
Hyperliquid stated that it has by no means claimed to be licensed or licensed by MAS and that nothing about its permissionless infrastructure has modified.
Do not have a look at this if you’re in Singapore. (Hyperliquid)
Indonesia units certification guidelines for influencers recommending crypto
Indonesia’s monetary regulator has launched certification necessities for influencers who suggest crypto and different digital monetary belongings, because the nation expands oversight of economic promotions on social media.
Below Monetary Companies Authority Regulation No. 6 of 2026, introduced Wednesday, people recommending digital belongings should acquire competency certifications except they’re already topic to a separate licensing requirement.
Influencers could suggest solely digital belongings listed on licensed exchanges, whereas any service supplier they suggest should even be licensed. Advertising and marketing campaigns have to be performed via regulated monetary providers companies, that are answerable for the promotional content material, and distributed via their official communication channels.
Indonesia joins a rising variety of jurisdictions tightening oversight of economic influencers, additionally known as finfluencers, with Australia and the UK introducing broader guidelines for funding promotions and the Philippines adopting crypto-specific advertising and marketing restrictions.
South Korean authorities advantageous Bithumb $136K over sharing consumer info abroad
South Korean cryptocurrency change Bithumb was order to pay a $136,000 advantageous after it was discovered to have breached private info protections guidelines when it despatched consumer knowledge abroad.
In a Thursday discover, the nation’s Private Data Safety Fee (PIPC) stated that its investigation into Bithumb discovered that the change had “transferred private info abroad with out the separate consent of the info topics in the course of the means of order e-book sharing and digital asset switch with abroad digital asset exchanges.”
The incident was related to Bithumb sharing its Tether (USDT) order books between September and November 2025 with BingX, regardless of acquiring consent to share the info with Stellar, in addition to sharing consumer info with 13 abroad exchanges.
Supply: PIPC
SBI to accumulate Bitbank in $289M deal creating Japan’s largest crypto change
Japan’s SBI Holdings has signed agreements to accumulate full management of crypto change Bitbank via a 46.7 billion Japanese yen ($289 million) transaction, advancing a deal first disclosed in Might that may create the nation’s largest crypto change.
SBI expects the transaction to shut round October, topic to regulatory clearance.
The acquisition would develop SBI’s regulated crypto change footprint and buyer base, giving it one other potential distribution channel for the stablecoins, tokenized belongings and onchain monetary merchandise.
Bitbank’s day by day buying and selling quantity has hovered under $50 million for a lot of the final 4 months, CoinGecko knowledge confirmed. Quantity is dominated by the BTC/JPY pair (39.5%), adopted by XRP/JPY and ETH/JPY (each at 19.7%).
SBI stated combining Bitbank with SBI VC Commerce would give the group about 1.1 trillion yen in belongings below custody and roughly 2.92 million crypto accounts, that means the mixed enterprise would rank first amongst Japanese crypto exchanges.
Chainlink joins European and Korean financial institution consortia to develop FX settlement community
Chainlink has joined a working group with European and South Korean banking organizations to discover using stablecoins for international change (FX) settlement.
The protocol has introduced Venture Pangea alongside South Korean digital asset infrastructure firm FairSquareLab, the Unified Korea Alliance (UniKA) — a consortium that features greater than a dozen Korean business banks — and Qivalis, a euro stablecoin consortium backed by 37 European banks.
Venture Pangea goals to convey collectively monetary establishments throughout Europe and South Korea to guage direct, atomic swaps of euro- and South Korean won-denominated stablecoins utilizing Chainlink’s knowledge infrastructure alongside FairSquareLab’s onchain international change settlement expertise.
The initiative is one other instance of economic establishments evaluating stablecoins for wholesale monetary infrastructure fairly than client funds. In keeping with the Financial institution for Worldwide Settlements, the worldwide international change market processes roughly $9.6 trillion in day by day buying and selling quantity.
South Korea provides token securities to capital market overhaul
South Korea’s monetary regulator folded token securities infrastructure right into a broader overhaul of the nation’s capital markets, alongside plans for quicker settlement, longer buying and selling hours and larger use of synthetic intelligence.
On Tuesday, the Monetary Companies Fee (FSC) stated it had launched a capital market infrastructure overview assembly to coordinate reforms throughout authorities businesses and market operators. In keeping with the FSC, plans for token securities will probably be additional mentioned individually via a public-private council earlier than being linked to the broader initiative.
The initiative features a roadmap for shortening the securities settlement cycle, anticipated by October, and a Korea Securities Depository (KSD) system for settling over-the-counter trades in unlisted shares and fractional funding merchandise by the top of 2026.
Circle, Nomura eye Japan company FX with stablecoin settlement: Report
Stablecoin issuer Circle and Japan’s largest funding financial institution Nomura have reportedly partnered to allow prompt international change settlement for Japanese corporations as early as 2027.
The service would allow corporations to transform yen into dollar-denominated stablecoins for cross-border transactions and prompt settlement, decreasing delays brought on by banking hours and time zone variations, Nikkei reported on Thursday.
The partnership would convey one of many world’s largest greenback stablecoins into Japan’s company international change market, increasing using stablecoins for business-to-business cross-border settlement.
Australian regulator extends no-action interval for crypto licensing
The Australian Securities and Investments Fee (ASIC) has given digital asset companies one other three months (to September 30) apply for licenses required below its up to date regulatory steering.
The extension applies to companies in search of an Australian Monetary Companies (AFS) license, in addition to corporations which will require market or clearing and settlement authorizations.
The regulator stated it has obtained about 30 license functions since updating its digital asset steering in October 2025 to make clear that many crypto merchandise are monetary merchandise below the regulation and require an AFSL.
It famous its latest courtroom victory towards BlockEarner emphasised that time.
