Singapore • Mar 31, 2026
Marketnode opens a Singapore route for Franklin's on-chain fund
Malaysia • Mar 30, 2026
Maybank's first on-chain MYR-SGD payment gives Malaysia its clearest tokenised-deposit operating proof yet
Maybank's first executed MYR-SGD tokenised-deposit payment with Yinson changes the read-through on Malaysia's bank-money settlement stack.
Malaysia • Mar 30, 2026
SC Malaysia's March 2026 ICM revision opens a clearer DAX route for Shariah digital currencies--without yet creating a full tokenised ICM code
SC Malaysia's 30 March 2026 ICMPS revision changes the regulated route for Shariah-compliant digital currencies on DAX infrastructure while leaving broader tokenised Islamic capital-market products largely outside the express text.
Vietnam • Mar 29, 2026
Vietnam's crypto tax circular formalizes a licensed-market path without legalizing crypto payments
Vietnam's new crypto tax circular formalizes a fiscally operable pilot market without legalizing crypto payments, sharpening the read-through for licensed operator and bank-partnership paths.
Cambodia • Mar 28, 2026
Cambodia’s Bakong large-value rail comes into view
NBC’s 2025 Financial Stability Review discloses a USD 50,000 Bakong Large Value Payment threshold and dedicated metrics, while leaving route share and participant detail unresolved.
Saudi Arabia • Mar 26, 2026
Saudi Arabia's Q1 market-opening package now sits beside a visible digital infrastructure build-out
A Saudi institutional note separating the January 2026 foreign-investor opening from the March 2026 financing-fund reform and testing how far Tadawul's official materials support a digital market-infrastructure thesis.
Cross-border • Mar 18, 2026
Project Hangang moves into treasury workflows and commercialization
Project Hangang has moved from pilot proof into treasury-workflow testing and deposit-token commercialization prep.
Indonesia • Mar 11, 2026
PT Central Finansial X (CFX) gives Indonesia’s licensed crypto market a public reporting layer
How PT Central Finansial X’s monthly data release makes Indonesia’s OJK-supervised crypto market more publicly observable at the exchange layer.
Indonesia • Mar 9, 2026
Bank Syariah Indonesia’s bullion ecosystem now looks like a supervised digital-gold servicing lane
Bank Syariah Indonesia’s March 9, 2026 bullion update shows an integrated, vault-backed, shariah-governed gold-servicing stack inside a supervised Indonesian bank.
Vietnam • Mar 7, 2026
Vietnam Ministry of Finance makes client-asset segregation a hard control in the crypto-asset pilot
Vietnam Ministry of Finance Circular 15/2026/TT-BTC makes client cash and crypto segregation, customer-level subledgers, and non-recognition of custodial client crypto as provider assets explicit controls in the crypto-asset pilot.
Indonesia • Mar 7, 2026
OJK’s bullion roadmap makes Indonesia bullion a governed financial-services lane
OJK’s March 2026 bullion roadmap reframed Indonesia bullion and gold tokenization as supervised financial-services infrastructure tied to named rules, Gold ETF productization, and live sandbox evidence.
Singapore • Mar 4, 2026
Standard Chartered’s TP ICAP mandate inserts bank custody and settlement into wholesale digital-asset execution
Standard Chartered’s TP ICAP mandate shows bank custody and settlement moving into the core of wholesale digital-asset venue design.
Malaysia • Feb 27, 2026
CIMB moves tokenised funding into forward financing plans in Malaysia
CIMB's 27 February 2026 results release confirms that tokenised funding has entered forward financing plans, with own-sukuk exploration and tokenised-deposit settlement work already tied to Malaysia's regulated tokenisation stack.
Vietnam • Feb 24, 2026
State Securities Commission of Vietnam is moving the crypto-asset market into operator build-out
Vietnam’s State Securities Commission signaled on 24 February 2026 that the crypto-asset market had entered operator build-out, backed by pilot rules and licensing intake.
Malaysia • Feb 11, 2026
Maybank's ringgit tokenised-deposit pilot turns Malaysia's digital-money debate into a named wholesale test
Maybank's February 11, 2026 ringgit tokenised-deposit pilot under BNM's DAIH, framed as a supervised wholesale cross-border payments test rather than a generic blockchain announcement.
Malaysia • Feb 11, 2026
Bank Negara Malaysia puts an end-2026 policy clock on ringgit stablecoins and tokenised deposits
How Bank Negara Malaysia’s February 2026 DAIH update adds an end-2026 policy timetable for ringgit stablecoins and tokenised deposits inside a wholesale settlement perimeter.
Malaysia • Jan 30, 2026
Securities Commission Malaysia makes digital-asset broking an explicit licensed lane
Securities Commission Malaysia’s 30 January 2026 practice note allowing certain CMSL holders to provide digital-asset broking under explicit sourcing, custody, segregation, and client-protection controls.
United Arab Emirates • Jan 19, 2026
Emirates NBD’s AED digital bond gives the UAE a live digital-debt proof point across issuance, settlement, and listing
Emirates NBD’s January 2026 AED digitally native bond and why it gave the UAE a live issuance, settlement, and listing proof point.
United Arab Emirates • Jan 12, 2026
DFSA's January 2026 crypto rewrite gives firms the token gate and keeps payment-token issuance federal
Why the DFSA's January 2026 crypto rewrite should be read as a shift from regulator-maintained token recognition to firm-led suitability, tighter custody accountability, and a sharper DIFC boundary with the CBUAE's federal payment-token regime.
Cambodia • Jan 9, 2026
ACLEDA Bank’s Ministry of Commerce launch signals deeper workflow integration in Cambodia public-service collections
ACLEDA Bank’s January 2026 Ministry of Commerce launch suggests a deeper role in Cambodia public-service collections and workflow-linked bank rails.
United Arab Emirates • Dec 10, 2025
ADGM's digital-asset stack now signals regulated operating depth in the UAE
Why ADGM's December 2025 ecosystem update should be read as regulated operating depth across payments, custody, and intermediation, not as proof of scaled adoption.
Singapore • Dec 3, 2025
Monetary Authority of Singapore turns BLOOM into the settlement leg of Project Guardian
MAS’s 3 December 2025 BLOOM speech and the shift from asset tokenisation to supervised settlement-asset infrastructure.
Saudi Arabia • Nov 16, 2025
Saudi Central Bank extends tokenized commercial-bank money experimentation into collateral workflows
Saudi Central Bank's November 16, 2025 disclosure that links tokenized commercial-bank money testing with blockchain-enabled collateral pledging automation.
Singapore • Nov 11, 2025
DBS and Kinexys make interbank tokenized deposits Singapore's next operating test
Why DBS's November 2025 Kinexys announcement matters as a cross-bank tokenized-deposit interoperability signal, not just another bank-tokenization release.