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Global: Irish central bank lays down new rules for BNPL providers
The Central Bank of Ireland is applying new consumer protection legislation to ensure that hire purchase, consumer hire, and buy now, pay later ...
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Global: FCA to gain new powers to protect access to cash
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is to be granted new powers over the UK’s largest banks and building societies, to ensure that cash ...
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Global: Cryptocurrency Is ‘Based on Nothing,’ Should Be Regulated, ECB’s Lagarde Says
President of the European Central Bank Christine Lagarde has insisted that unlike a digital euro, cryptocurrency has no underlying asset. It should be ...
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Global: New experiments pave way for international payments using CBDCs
SWIFT, in collaboration with Capgemini, is conducting new experiments to test how we can interlink domestic CBDCs and take the next step towards ...
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Global: BSP to launch digital currency experiment in fourth quarter
Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas Governor Benjamin Diokno on Friday said the experiment on wholesale central bank digital currency (CBDC) would begin in the ...
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Global: Vietnam Launches Blockchain Association to Conduct Research and Suggest Regulations
A newly established blockchain association aims to help Vietnam promote its digital economy and position the country on the world’s technology map. The ...
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Global: OpenSea disables Bored Ape NFT amid legal case in Singapore
OpenSea, the world’s largest Non-Fungible Token (NFT) marketplace, has disabled trading for a Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) NFT on its platform amid ...
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Global: Wells Fargo Advisors fined $7 mln by U.S. SEC for anti-money laundering lapses
The U.S. Securities and Exchange commission on Friday said Wells Fargo Advisors had agreed to pay $7 million to settle charges of anti-money ...
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Global: Spain fines Google 10 million euros for breaching data protection law
The Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD) has imposed a penalty of ten million euros on Google for transferring data to third parties without ...
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Global: SWIFT, Capgemini team up to test using the international network for CBDC transfers
The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, or SWIFT, the Belgian financial messaging network used by banks in international money transfers, announced Thursday ...