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Global: Hong Kong publishes CBDC discussion paper
Hong Kong is pushing ahead with its exploration of a retail central bank digital currency, launching a discussion paper on the policy and ...
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Global: Western Union Expands UK Post Office Partnership
Western Union is expanding its partnership with the U.K. Post Office to offer retail cross-border money transfers, the company said in a Friday (April ...
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Global: W2, Visa Team Up on UK Business Compliance Tools
Regulatory compliance software platform W2 is teaming up with payments behemoth Visa to offer “enhanced compliance solutions and tools for U.K. Platinum and ...
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Grab-led digibank consortium selected to receive Malaysia digital banking licence
Grab Holdings Limited (NASDAQ: GRAB) and Singtel announced today that GXS Bank Pte. Ltd., their digital bank joint venture, and a consortium of ...
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Global: Belgian financial regulator FSMA to regulate crypto exchange services
Crypto service providers must fulfill seven conditions that include being constituted in the form of a company with a minimum capital of roughly ...
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India: IFSCA issues new framework for fintech entities
The framework issued by IFSCA is a unified regulator for banking, capital markets, insurance and fund management in IFSC. In a bid to ...
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Global: EBA CLEARING, SWIFT, and TCH partner for immediate cross-border payments
EBA CLEARING, SWIFT, and The Clearing House (TCH) have planned to launch a pilot service for immediate cross-border (IXB) payments with the support of banks from ...
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Global: IsDB Institute Unveils New Brand Identity
The Institute will take advantage of frontier technologies to build the next generation of knowledge leaders and entrepreneurs The Islamic Development Bank Institute ...
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Global: The Philippines will launch pilot wholesale central bank digital currency project
Retail digital payments are growing, but the country needs to implement further payment and financial inclusion reforms before a retail CBDC will be ...
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Global: Brazil’s Senate approves ‘Bitcoin law’ to regulate cryptocurrencies
Brazil’s Senate has passed the country’s first bill governing cryptocurrencies in a plenary session, which will set the stage for the creation of ...