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Ukraine plans for crypto integration by 2024
Government and business representatives in Ukraine have produced a roadmap to integrate cryptocurrencies by 2024. The authors of the new strategy want to ...
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French Central Bank Conducts Fifth Experiment on Tunisia CBDC
The French central bank, Banque de France (BOF), recently carried out its fifth experiment on the Central Bank of Tunisia (CBT)’s central bank ...
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Colombia Central Bank Launches Blockchain Bond Project
The Central Bank of Colombia (Banco de la República), IDB Group and Banco Davivienda have launched the pilot of Colombia’s first blockchain bond. ...
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Central Bank of Brazil regulates PIX payment initiation service
The Central Bank of Brazil has announced that it will incorporate a payment initiation service into its central bank-backed real-time payment system PIX. Currently, ...
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Regulation coming for Stablecoins amid their growing systemic risk – Gary Gensler
Gary Gensler, the Chairman of America’s Securities and Exchange Commission recently disclosed that digital assets that fall under the category of having being ...
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Ransomware: Hackers demand $50 million in Crypto from Saudi Aramco
Saudi Aramco, the world’s largest oil firm, has had a data leak in which one terabyte (TB) of the company’s data has been ...
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Digital yuan pilots expand to insurance industry for the first time
China’s central bank digital currency can now be used on insurance policies that offer various levels of compensation for diagnosis of or death ...
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BSP gives Philippines a fourth digital bank player: UnionBank
Aboitiz-led Union Bank of the Philippines received a green light from the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas to establish its own digital bank, joining ...
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Canada CBDC ‘Probably Necessary’ for Competition, Central Bank Says in Paper
A central bank digital currency is “probably necessary” for a competitive digital economy, the Bank of Canada said in a staff paper published ...
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Bank of Korea selects Kakao’s blockchain arm for digital currency tests
The central bank of South Korea has chosen a blockchain subsidiary of local internet giant Kakao as a technology provider for its digital ...