| Licensing | verified2026-07-26 PFAK licence from OJK; oversight moved Bappebti to OJK Jan 2025, reclassifying crypto from commodity to digital financial asset. Asset listing is decided CENTRALLY by the bourse (CFX), not by exchanges, so a token qualifies rather than negotiates. Transition window runs to January 2027. Transition-window date and the centralised-listing structure are corroborated by Tiger; the instruments are ours. POJK 27/2024 + UU 4/2026, held in our own reg_library | verified2026-07-28 Regulation (EU) 2023/1114 (MiCA), adopted 31 May 2023, OJ L 150 of 9 June 2023. Comprehensive crypto-asset licensing with a passportable CASP authorisation. Title, number, adoption date and OJ reference confirmed against EUR-Lex. The CASP application date (relayed as Dec 2024) was NOT in the fetched text and stays unverified; the application provisions sit in the final articles. | relayed No single federal crypto licence. CLARITY Act (passed House Jul 2025) would split digital commodities to CFTC and securities to SEC; state regimes apply meanwhile. PASSED ONE CHAMBER is not law. Do not cite this as the US regime. Tiger Research, Retail Investor Landscape Across 9 Asian Markets, 2026 | relayed Licensing extended in 2025-06 to operators serving ONLY overseas clients, closing the offshore-from-Singapore route. Month given, instrument not named in the source. Tiger Research, Retail Investor Landscape Across 9 Asian Markets, 2026 | relayed SEC Thailand licenses exchanges. The tax regime explicitly subsidises licensed venues over unlicensed ones. Tiger Research, Retail Investor Landscape Across 9 Asian Markets, 2026 | verified2026-07-28 BSP's own VASP directory, as of 15 July 2026, lists 9 entries: 6 ACTIVE non-bank VASPs (Coins.ph/Betur, Maya, Moneybees, PDAX, TopJuan, WIBS PHP), 1 marked INACTIVE/NOT OPERATIONAL (Direct Agent 5 / SurgePay), and 2 ACTIVE bank VASPs (GoTyme, UnionBank). So the operational count is 8 active, not 9. CORRECTS the relayed claim. Tiger says 'only 9 VASPs'; the directory shows 9 LISTED of which 8 are active. Directionally right, imprecise on the number that matters. The moratorium dates themselves (2022-09 start, 2025-09 extension) are still UNVERIFIED: the BSP media release did not render and the memo PDF fetched was a different issuance. | relayed Five-year pilot from 2025-09. Named front-runners are all bank or securities affiliates: Techcombank (TCEX), VP Bank, LP Bank, VIX Securities (VIXEX). Vietnam's Digital Technology Industry Act is dated in the source as 'in June' WITH THE YEAR OMITTED, in a document published 2026-03-31. Our digest explicitly says do not cite that date without verification. Tiger Research, Retail Investor Landscape Across 9 Asian Markets, 2026 |
| Retail access | relayed Retail access is open through licensed exchanges. Penetration reported only as 'single digits' with no number and no definition of an account. Indonesia gets ONE number in the entire Tiger report (280M population, not a crypto metric) and the thinnest treatment of the nine markets covered. Tiger Research, Retail Investor Landscape Across 9 Asian Markets, 2026 | not looked | not looked | relayed 94% awareness and 29% ownership. 'Even with nearly all institutional barriers removed, 65% remain outside the market.' A market statistic, not a regime rule. Included because it is the cleanest counter-example to the assumption that clearing the regime brings the users. Tiger Research, Retail Investor Landscape Across 9 Asian Markets, 2026 | not looked | not looked | relayed Adoption is already high and regulation is catching up, the inverse of the usual sequence. Binance dominated pre-licensing. Tiger Research, Retail Investor Landscape Across 9 Asian Markets, 2026 |
| Stablecoin + payments | verified2026-07-28 Crypto payments are PROHIBITED. Currency law designates the rupiah as sole legal tender, which forecloses the payment use case regardless of which tokens exist. Tiger records zero words on Indonesian stablecoins while giving SG, TH, PH and HK their own stablecoin paragraphs. BI PBI 18/40/2016, standing constraint in our own notes | relayed MiCA regulates stablecoins as EMTs and ARTs, a two-class split with reserve and issuer requirements. The EMT-versus-ART distinction is exactly where our own taxonomy errors have happened before: a fiat-pegged token is an EMT, NOT an ART. Verify against the MiCA titles before citing either label. Tiger Research, Retail Investor Landscape Across 9 Asian Markets, 2026 | relayed GENIUS Act, relayed as signed 18 Jul 2025: federal stablecoin law requiring 100% reserves, monthly disclosure, and federal or state issuer licensing. Verification ATTEMPTED and FAILED: congress.gov returns HTTP 403 to our fetcher, the same wall the Thai SEC put up. The date and the signing are relayed, not confirmed. This is the single most-cited US crypto fact of 2025 and we have not checked it. Tiger Research, Retail Investor Landscape Across 9 Asian Markets, 2026 | not looked Tiger gives Singapore a stablecoin paragraph; our digest did not capture its content. Re-read the source section before filling. | relayed A local-currency stablecoin exists with $9.4B volume WHILE crypto payments have been banned since 2022, so it functions as a trading pair rather than a payment rail. Our digest flags the source's THB-stablecoin vs KRW-fiat comparison as apples to oranges and marks it do-not-cite. The ban and the volume are separable from that bad comparison, but the volume figure is uncited. Tiger Research, Retail Investor Landscape Across 9 Asian Markets, 2026 | not looked Tiger gives the Philippines a stablecoin paragraph not captured in our digest. | not looked |
| Tax posture | relayed PMK 108/2025 adopts the OECD CARF; first automatic exchange 2027 on 2026 data. Indonesia is EARLY on tax-information alignment relative to peers. The instrument is in our reg_library, so the REF is ours; the CARF timing is from our own comparison notes and has not been checked against the PMK text. our own reg_library (PMK 108/2025) + global_reg comparison notes | not looked | not looked | not looked | relayed Five-year personal income tax exemption from 2025-01, applying ONLY to trades on SEC-licensed exchanges. The single most citable peer fact in the set, and the one most worth verifying first: it is a dated, specific, checkable instrument. Tiger Research, Retail Investor Landscape Across 9 Asian Markets, 2026 | not looked | not looked |
| Foreign entry | relayed Loans are prohibited as a capital source for licensed operators, so equity or nothing. Mandatory local security staffing sets a real headcount floor, which rules out a paper entity. Both are operationally load-bearing for any inbound client and neither is cited to an instrument in the source. Our own global_reg notes add a 40% FOREIGN OWNERSHIP CAP, which is the single most decision-relevant number in this row and is likewise uncited. Tiger Research, Retail Investor Landscape Across 9 Asian Markets, 2026 | relayed Passporting: one CASP authorisation covers the bloc, which is the structural opposite of Indonesia's single-bourse gate. Tiger Research, Retail Investor Landscape Across 9 Asian Markets, 2026 | not looked | not looked | not looked | verified2026-07-28 Confirmed against BSP's directory: the only two BANK VASPs are GoTyme Bank Corporation and Union Bank of the Philippines, both ACTIVE. The bank route is therefore real and is currently occupied by exactly two institutions. The directory confirms WHO holds bank VASP licences. It does NOT confirm Tiger's characterisation that these were granted as moratorium EXCEPTIONS; that causal claim remains unverified. | relayed $400M minimum capital, which effectively excludes every non-bank foreign entrant. The foreign path is partnership with a licensed local, not application. Still on the FATF grey list. HIGHEST-VALUE CELL TO VERIFY AND THE HARDEST. A $400M threshold decides whether a market is enterable at all, and it is uncited, in a jurisdiction whose primary instruments are Vietnamese-language. Tiger Research, Retail Investor Landscape Across 9 Asian Markets, 2026 |