The Payments Association

JUNE 3, 2025

James Hurren explores what early CBDC deployments across Asia, the Caribbean, and Europe reveal about usage, adoption, and the future of cross-border digital money. Central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) have rapidly evolved from theoretical concepts into live pilots and national deployments.

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Clearly Payments

AUGUST 29, 2024

Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) have received attention in recent years as central banks worldwide explore the potential to evolve the way we conduct financial transactions. With the rise of digital payments, cryptocurrencies, and fintech innovations, CBDCs represent a new frontier in the evolution of money.

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Central Bank Digital Currency CBDC Cross-Border Payments 105

Fintech News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

SC Ventures, the innovation, fintech investment, and ventures arm of Standard Chartered, and Giesecke+Devrient (G+D) successfully completed a proof-of-concept (PoC) on the Universal Digital Payments Network (UDPN). Central Bank Digital Currencies must therefore be able to work together quickly, easily and securely across national borders.

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CBDC Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) Cross-Border Central Bank 116

Fintech News

JANUARY 30, 2024

Other payment trends in Asia preceding 2024 including the rise of B2B buy now pay later (BNPL), growing prominence of central bank digital currency (CBDC), and prevalence of composable, cloud-based ‘as-a-Service’ IT architecture models have helped shape much of what we anticipate for 2024.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Distributed ledger technology (DLT) — which uses tech like blockchain to verify transactions without the need for a centralized authority — is gaining traction as a way to revamp capital markets infrastructure by making it more streamlined, improving transparency, and reducing associated fees.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

31, focuses on anti-money laundering (AML) practices and countering financing terrorism (CFT). The ministry’s AML and CFT policies incorporate the suggested policies set by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) and will be monitored by the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (CFATF).

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CBDC Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) Visa AML 64

Neopay

MAY 28, 2024

The discussion focused around 6 main areas, namely: (i) regulatory and market developments and financial stability outlook, (ii) banking and anti-money laundering (AML), (iii) sustainable finance (iv) capital markets (v) asset management, and (vi) digital finance and artificial intelligence (AI).

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