China released a five-year blueprint calling for greater regulation of vast parts of the economy, providing a sweeping framework for the broader crackdown ...

The Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has fined Swiss bank UBS $1.5 million for failing to rectify a series of compliance ...

The brokerage arm of Singapore’s DBS Bank has received approval “in principle” from the country’s financial regulator to begin offering crypto services to ...

Samsung Electronics is reportedly going to be a part of South Korea’s central bank digital currency (CBDC) pilot project. Samsung will participate in ...

Global payments giant JPMorgan Chase & Co (JPM.N) has launched a real-time payments option that it hopes will increase its edge in the financial industry’s ...

Juniper Research has published a whitepaper titled, `Cash is No Longer King: How Contactless Payments are Becoming the Norm, showing a rise in biometric ...

Digital Wallets have become an entry point for consumers to engage with financial services and they create new opportunities to target the underserved ...

The Ukrainian government has drafted a roadmap for the integration of crypto into the country’s economy. After the crypto draft bill is adopted, ...

Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) has minted Jamaica’s first batch of central bank digital currency (CBDC). A total of JMD 230 million dollars in CBDC ...

The Bank of Korea (BOK) has revealed plans to initiate its central bank digital currency (CBDC) pilot by the end of August 2021. The first ...