Digital Assets Law in Singapore and Switzerland
The law of digital assets in Singapore, read against Switzerland: the MAS approach, property and trusts, the Payment Services Act and the Securities and Futures Act, AML and sanctions, tax, enforcement, structuring and a practical toolkit. Law stated as at 30 June 2026.
What the book covers
Two small countries have become places where serious digital-asset businesses choose to live. Each has a legal order that was ready for the asset class early, a regulator that talks to applicants, a tax system that rewards patient holding and courts that have already decided what a token is. The book explains how those orders work, where they resemble each other and where they diverge. It helps a founder, an investor, a trustee or a fellow adviser to use both without falling between them.
This site publishes the parts that concern Singapore and the comparison. The Swiss parts of the printed book are not reproduced here. Later changes are outside the book: the licensing exemption and fund incentive conditions for family offices of mid-2026 and the draft stablecoin legislation of September 2026, for example, are noted on Doing Business in Singapore.
Contents published here
- The Two Hubs: Why Switzerland and Singapore
- Technology and Taxonomy for Lawyers
- Singapore I: Foundations and the MAS Approach
- Singapore II: Private Law and Case Law
- Singapore III: Regulation: PSA, SFA, FSMA/DTSP, Stablecoins, Tokenisation
- Singapore IV: AML/CFT and Compliance
- Singapore V: Taxation and Incentives
- Singapore VI: Enforcement, Insolvency and Dispute Resolution
- Comparative Analysis and the Wider Context
- Structuring Between the Hubs
- Practice Toolkit: decision guides, checklists, model clauses and roadmaps
- Annexes: Chronology, Legislation, Cases and Guidance
Read it here
The text is on SingaporeIQ section by section, free of charge: Digital Assets Law in Singapore and Switzerland – all sections. Start with the opening of the book or the state of the law on 30 June 2026.
Bibliographic details
- Dr Alexander Ressos TEP, Digital Assets Law in Singapore and Switzerland
- Editions Euthenia, law as at 30 June 2026
The author
SingaporeIQ is published by Dr Alexander Ressos. Dr Ressos is Of Counsel with KGP Legal LLC. All Singapore law advice is provided through KGP Legal LLC, a duly licensed firm of Singapore advocates and solicitors (licence LSRA/LLC/2017/00023), 10 Anson Road #03-27 International Plaza, Singapore 079903. All enquiries should be directed to Dr Alexander Ressos at [email protected].
Dr Ressos has been working in Singapore and Hong Kong since 2009. His profile lists his admissions. The book is a study of the law. SingaporeIQ is an information website. It gives no legal advice, and reading it creates no client relationship.