SBI Completes Coinhako Acquisition After Singapore MAS Regulatory Clearance
What happened
Japanese financial group SBI has completed its acquisition of Singaporean cryptocurrency exchange Coinhako following approval from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). The deal gives SBI a regulated foothold in Singapore's digital asset market. Coinhako holds a Major Payment Institution license under Singapore's Payment Services Act. No financial terms for the transaction were disclosed in the announcement.
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MAS in this story refers to the Monetary Authority of Singapore, Singapore's financial regulator, and is not a stock ticker. The closing of the transaction extends SBI's regulated crypto footprint beyond Japan into Singapore, one of Asia's more prescriptive digital asset jurisdictions. No U.S.-listed equity is directly implicated by the deal.