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China’s Digital Currency Electronic Payment Project reveals the good and the bad of central bank digital currencies
Many central banks around the world have begun researching and testing various versions of digital currencies, with several participating in a consortium coordinated by ...
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How PeopleLink created the strongest Indian alternative to foreign video conferencing and webinar brands
PeopleLink has become the first Indian video conference company to disrupt the market by its approach of offering secure, custom video applications for ...
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How N17bn USSD Debt Threatens Financial Inclusion Drive
The Federal Government’s drive to get more than half of Nigeria’s population to have bank accounts or at least contribute to financial flow ...
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Hong Kong’s future lies with fintech, and it will be bright
Whether it was the UN trade embargo on China in the 1950s and 1960s, the manufacturing decline in the 1970s, Black Monday, or the ...
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Central Bank Digital Currencies and Their Role in the Financial System
Central bank digital currencies are a digital representation of a country’s fiat currency. They are effectively a government-issued cryptocurrency designed to replace the ...
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China’s unlicensed asset management firms still a threat, central bank official says
Fan Yifei, the vice governor of the People’s Bank of China, announced that a sizable proportion of the 5,000 third-party wealth management firms ...
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How Does DLT Engender Greater Financial Inclusion
“Distributed ledger technology (DLT) will have an incredible impact on financial services and engender greater financial inclusion and, therefore, economic growth, especially in ...
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The Top 5 Considerations with Investment Crowdfunding
In recent years, equity (or investment-based) crowdfunding has been a popular alternative source of funding for early and later-stage companies. This is due ...
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Why Central banks should not rush into digital currencies
The great financial crisis sowed distrust in the global monetary order, spawning bitcoin and myriad copycat cryptocurrencies. But it was not until the ...
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When Will Europe Become fully Cashless
Becoming a cashless society seems to be the future. In countries like China, a huge adoption of mobile payments has come in. It ...