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 alternate Hyperliquid to its Investor Alert Checklist.
The entry, added on Friday, consists of the Hyper Basis web site and the Hyperliquid buying and selling app.
The Investor Alert Checklist is a shopper safety measure that identifies entities that could be wrongly perceived as licensed or regulated by MAS. Inclusion on the listing doesn’t represent a ban or enforcement motion.
MAS added crypto alternate Bybit to the listing 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 property, because the nation expands oversight of monetary promotions on social media.
Below Monetary Providers Authority Regulation No. 6 of 2026, introduced Wednesday, people recommending digital property should acquire competency certifications except they’re already topic to a separate licensing requirement.
Influencers could suggest solely digital property listed on licensed exchanges, whereas any service supplier they suggest should even be licensed. Advertising and marketing campaigns have to be carried out by way of regulated monetary companies companies, that are liable for the promotional content material, and distributed by way of their official communication channels.
Indonesia joins a rising variety of jurisdictions tightening oversight of monetary influencers, additionally known as finfluencers, with Australia and the UK introducing broader guidelines for funding promotions and the Philippines adopting crypto-specific advertising restrictions.
South Korean authorities tremendous Bithumb $136K over sharing person data abroad
South Korean cryptocurrency alternate Bithumb was order to pay a $136,000 tremendous after it was discovered to have breached private data protections guidelines when it despatched person information abroad.
In a Thursday discover, the nation’s Private Info Safety Fee (PIPC) stated that its investigation into Bithumb discovered that the alternate had “transferred private data abroad with out the separate consent of the information topics through the strategy 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 information with Stellar, in addition to sharing person data with 13 abroad exchanges.
Supply: PIPC
SBI to accumulate Bitbank in $289M deal creating Japan’s largest crypto alternate
Japan’s SBI Holdings has signed agreements to accumulate full management of crypto alternate Bitbank by way of a 46.7 billion Japanese yen ($289 million) transaction, advancing a deal first disclosed in Could that may create the nation’s largest crypto alternate.
SBI expects the transaction to shut round October, topic to regulatory clearance.
The acquisition would broaden SBI’s regulated crypto alternate footprint and buyer base, giving it one other potential distribution channel for the stablecoins, tokenized property and onchain monetary merchandise.
Bitbank’s day by day buying and selling quantity has hovered under $50 million for many of the final 4 months, CoinGecko information confirmed. Quantity is dominated by the 
BTCJPY pair (39.5%), adopted by 
XRPJPY and 
ETHJPY (each at 19.7%).
SBI stated combining Bitbank with SBI VC Commerce would give the group about 1.1 trillion yen in property underneath 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 the usage of stablecoins for international alternate (FX) settlement.
The protocol has introduced Challenge Pangea alongside South Korean digital asset infrastructure firm FairSquareLab, the Unified Korea Alliance (UniKA) — a consortium that features greater than a dozen Korean industrial banks — and Qivalis, a euro stablecoin consortium backed by 37 European banks.
Challenge Pangea goals to carry collectively monetary establishments throughout Europe and South Korea to guage direct, atomic swaps of euro- and South Korean won-denominated stablecoins utilizing Chainlink’s information infrastructure alongside FairSquareLab’s onchain international alternate settlement know-how.
The initiative is one other instance of monetary establishments evaluating stablecoins for wholesale monetary infrastructure relatively than shopper funds. Based on the Financial institution for Worldwide Settlements, the worldwide international alternate 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 higher use of synthetic intelligence.
On Tuesday, the Monetary Providers Fee (FSC) stated it had launched a capital market infrastructure evaluation assembly to coordinate reforms throughout authorities businesses and market operators. Based on the FSC, plans for token securities might be additional mentioned individually by way of 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 immediate international alternate settlement for Japanese firms as early as 2027.
The service would allow firms to transform yen into dollar-denominated stablecoins for cross-border transactions and immediate settlement, decreasing delays brought on by banking hours and time zone variations, Nikkei reported on Thursday.
The partnership would carry one of many world’s largest greenback stablecoins into Japan’s company international alternate market, increasing the usage of 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 underneath its up to date regulatory steerage.
The extension applies to companies in search of an Australian Monetary Providers (AFS) license, in addition to firms which will require market or clearing and settlement authorizations.
The regulator stated it has acquired about 30 license functions since updating its digital asset steerage in October 2025 to make clear that many crypto merchandise are monetary merchandise underneath the legislation and require an AFSL.
It famous its latest courtroom victory in opposition to BlockEarner emphasised that time.
