The Monetary Authority of Singapore Plans for Digital Assets
Ravi Menon, the managing director of Singapore’s central bank, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), discussed digital assets at Singapore Fintech Festival last week.
Menon stated that digital assets have two critical features that can fundamentally transform the nature of financial transactions. The first is tokenization, which allows financial assets to be exchanged without intermediaries. The second is tokenization enables the fractionalization of assets, allowing for partial collateralization.
Ensuring Interoperable Digital Asset Networks
Menon emphasized the need to ensure that diverse digital asset networks are interoperable to fully realize seamless financial transactions. He described that currently, there is a proliferation of digital asset networks, and forced consolidation onto a single network is not feasible.
Project Guardian and Digital Money
Menon provided details on the MAS’s strategy to build the new financial architecture, mentioning that the IMF is joining the Project Guardian policymaker group. He also discussed digital money, stating that cryptocurrencies have failed the test of digital money, and well-regulated stablecoins can play a useful role as digital money.
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The Monetary Authority of Singapore’s managing director has outlined the central bank’s plan to ensure seamless financial transactions across digital asset networks.
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