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India in Talks to Forge New Cross-Border Payment Linkages, Says RBI

Fintech News

India is advancing efforts to establish cross-border payment linkages with multiple countries, as reported by Bloomberg, citing an official from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). India’s initiatives are also closely tied to its exploration of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). T Rabi Sankar Deputy Governor T.

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MAS to Explore Wholesale CBDC for Settlement Among Series of Tokenisation Plans

Fintech News

MAS is expanding its Global Layer One (GL1) initiative to support cross-border transactions of tokenised assets. Access to a common settlement facility is also being facilitated through the SGD Testnet, featuring S$ wholesale central bank digital currency (CBDC) for market testing.

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CBDCs in practice: What we’ve learned from the early movers

The Payments Association

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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Will Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) Impact Cross-Border Payments in 2024?

The Fintech Times

As of December 2023, 130 countries, representing 98 per cent of global GDP, were exploring central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) according to the Atlantic Council ‘s CBDC tracker. With so many countries looking towards centralised digital assets, we set out to find out how these would impact the cross-border payments market.

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New BIS Project Explores Wholesale CBDC for Faster, Cheaper Cross Border Payments

Fintech News

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has launched Project Rialto to test the potential for improving instant cross-border payments through a combination of a modular foreign exchange (FX) component and wholesale central bank digital currencies (wCBDC).

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Ghana pilots blockchain-based credentials and CBDC for global trade

Finextra

The Bank of Ghana (BoG) has completed a proof-of-concept into the use of digital credentials for international trade and CBDC-based cross-border payments.

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RAKBANK Completes International CBDC Transaction Using eCNY and Digital Dirham

The Fintech Times

Central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) have a lot of potential to uproot the cross-border payments market. RAKBANK has successfully exchanged a remittance using China’s digital Yuan (eCNY) in exchange for the Digital Dirham, the UAE’s CBDC.

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