Standard Chartered plans institutional crypto custody service in Singapore
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Standard Chartered said it will expand digital-asset custody services in Singapore for institutional and eligible corporate clients, with coverage for Bitcoin, stablecoins and tokenized real-world assets. The plans were described as a regulated custody offering in Singapore, and one version of the announcement also framed the client base as institutional and accredited investor corporate clients.
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Institutional and eligible corporate clients in Singapore are the ones who would notice this first, because the custody service is being set up for them and is framed around local regulatory requirements. The announcement also points to a bank-run option for holding Bitcoin, stablecoins and tokenized real-world assets, which is the practical change they would see in how those assets can be kept.
Before this, the named service was not described as available in Singapore in these terms; now Standard Chartered has said it plans to offer custody there for selected digital assets. What stays the same in the statement is that the offering remains limited to the client categories it names, rather than being described as open to all customers.
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