Capital.com’s Singapore unit has received a Capital Markets Services licence from the Monetary Authority of Singapore, giving the trading group its first licensed business in Southeast Asia as it prepares to onboard local clients in early 2027.
The MAS Financial Institutions Directory lists Capital Com Securities (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. as a Capital Markets Services licensee. The regulator says the company is authorized to deal in securities, collective investment schemes and over-the-counter derivatives contracts, and to provide custodial services.
Singapore’s Securities and Futures Act requires firms to hold a CMS licence to conduct regulated capital-markets activities. The MAS licensing guidance says capital-markets products include securities, units in collective investment schemes, OTC derivatives, exchange-traded derivatives and leveraged spot foreign exchange.
Capital.com said in a November 2 announcement that the licence marks its first market entry in Southeast Asia. The group plans to begin onboarding Singapore clients in early 2027, although it has not yet disclosed a specific launch date or a final list of products that will be available at launch.
The company said its Singapore onboarding process will use Singpass MyInfo for identity verification, along with know-your-customer checks and mandatory two-factor authentication. Those measures are company-stated launch plans rather than conditions separately detailed in the public MAS directory.
The regulator’s directory names Tony Lim as chief executive of the Singapore entity. Capital.com said Lim previously held senior roles in Singapore’s online-trading sector and will lead the local business as it builds operations under the new licence.
The Singapore company was incorporated in June 2025. The public directory lists its registered office at 9 Battery Road and provides a local contact number, indicating that the regulated entity is now established separately from Capital.com’s operations in other jurisdictions.
The licence covers both dealing and custody, but MAS does not use the directory entry to list individual instruments or commercial terms. Capital.com will therefore need to identify the products, fees, eligibility rules and risk disclosures that apply to Singapore clients when it opens onboarding.
The Singapore approval gives Capital.com a regulated base in a major Asian financial center and puts the group into a market that already hosts several international online brokers. The licence defines the broad activities the entity may conduct, but it does not by itself confirm which securities, funds or derivatives Capital.com will activate for clients when onboarding starts.
Capital.com said further product and onboarding details will be announced before the planned 2027 client launch.
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