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Global: Fed Chair Jerome Powell Says US will have Real-Time Payments “Very Soon”
Speaking on March 8, 2023, Fed Chair Jerome Powell says the US will have real-time payments “very soon.” Moreover, Powell spoke on the ...
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Global: Mastercard’s CBDC project explores use of eAUD on public blockchains
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) and the Digital Finance Cooperative Research Centre (DFCRC) outlined their retail and wholesale central bank digital currency (CBDC) pilot ...
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Challenges and Opportunities – Global Survey Results on Women’s Tech Careers
New survey reveals COVID, cost of living crisis, skills shortages and lack of mentorship have negatively affected women’s career development in the past ...
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Global: Iran completes pre-pilot phase of central bank digital currency
The Central Bank of Iran (CBI) has completed a pre-pilot phase in the development of Iran’s CBDC, according to an official statement by ...
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Global: BaaS platform Griffin becomes the latest UK challenger to secure a banking licence
Ten months after submitting its banking licence application, banking-as-a-service (BaaS) provider Griffin was today authorised by the PRA and the FCA to operate ...
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Global: WeChat integrates digital yuan into its payment platform
Chinese social media platform WeChat has incorporated the digital yuan in its payment app to boost the CBDC’s popularity. WeChat, China’s leading social ...
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Global: Central banks conclude cross-border CBDC experiment, Project Icebreaker
Project Icebreaker, a joint initiative from the Bank for International Settlements and the central banks of Israel, Norway, and Sweden, has successfully concluded ...
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Global: Mastercard launches Bitcoin card in the UK and EU
The third most visited cryptocurrency exchange in the world, Bybit, has announced the release of a debit card issued by Moorwand and powered ...
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Global: Smart lending fintech Abound raises £500 million
Abound, a UK-based fintech that uses a combination of open banking and artifical intelligence to offer better loan deals to consumers, has raised ...
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Global: US nominee for World Bank Group President, Ajay Banga, to hold discussions with leadership of African Development Bank Group
What: Visit of Ajay Banga, United States nominee for World Bank president, to the African Development Bank Group Who: The management of the ...
