The Fintech Times

JUNE 19, 2024

The Central Bank of the United Arab Emirates (CBUAE) has approved new regulations for stablecoins, enabling it to integrate Dirham-backed digital currencies into its financial ecosystem. What could it mean for the future of the financial ecosystem, for the crypto space in the region, and the future of a UAE CBDC?

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Fintech Finance

MAY 23, 2024

Reltime , a leading innovator in blockchain and Web3 technology, is thrilled to announce the launch of its state-of-the-art Global Payment Gateway (GW), designed to empower merchants and shops worldwide to accept payments from all popular digital currencies. Digital USD/EUR, Bitcoin, Ethereum, etc.

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The Fintech Times

JUNE 6, 2024

This project aims to create a multi-central bank digital currency (CBDC) platform for instant cross-border payments and settlements, leveraging distributed ledger technology (DLT). The platform now invites further international participation and private sector proposals for value-added solutions.

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Fintech News

APRIL 28, 2024

Other sessions also delved into key trends and issues shaping the global payment landscape, including open banking in Europe, the QR code revolution in Asia as well as the US’s card dominance. It utilizes both Q-money, a Thai Baht-based digital currency, and JPM Coin, which represents US dollar deposits.

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Fintech Finance

MARCH 26, 2024

The cooperative has focused its innovation agenda on interoperability between digital currencies and tokenised assets to overcome the potential risk of fragmentation, caused by the development of digital currencies on different technologies and with different standards and protocols.

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Faster Payments Council

MARCH 15, 2023

The panel will explore some of these initiatives including the New York Fed's CBDC pilot program with major banks, the recently concluded Boston Fed's Project Hamilton and other global CBDC projects. These projects are taking different implementation approaches.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 5, 2019

To make sure that they stay at the center of the global payment system, the head of the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) says that central banks have to embrace the revolution in digital money, Bloomberg reported Thursday (Dec. He had also pointed out there are other downsides to CBDC.

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Fintech News

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Additionally, it prevents tainted payments from entering the correspondent banking network, thus bolstering security. “ We have a solution to this issue: the LexisNexis Bankers Almanac Validate which verifies global payment data and prevents fraud.

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Fintech Finance

APRIL 22, 2024

This is a significant milestone in the strategic partnership between Soft Space and JCB, which was signed in January 2022, and follows their successful central bank digital currency (CBDC) trial in December 2023, as well as the recent agreement to enable JCB acceptance for all HLB merchants.

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Wharton Fintech

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

We have been working with governments on what is called central bank digital currency, or CBDC. I think that is another great example where we do over 150 currencies on the network today. We have done a lot of work with blockchain technology, particularly stablecoin.

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Fintech Finance

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Digital currency systems could prove to be key in improving financial inclusion and opening up new opportunities to large underbanked communities in many African countries. The UDPN aims to drive down payment and foreign exchange costs whilst accelerating the uptake of regulated digital currencies.

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The Payments Association

APRIL 14, 2025

For payment firms and financial institutions, this is far more than a technical upgrade. Delayed preparation may result in incompatibility with global payment systems, transaction failures, data truncation, and increased regulatory scrutiny. This update significantly recalibrates industry expectations and planning assumptions.

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The Payments Association

MARCH 18, 2025

During the Biden Administration, the US Federal Reserve (the Fed) explored plans for Project Cedar, an early-stage framework for a potential central bank digital currency (CBDC). Senator Lee has been among the most vocal opponents of a US CBDC, expressing concerns about potential government overreach.

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