The Paypers

JUNE 20, 2025

The Paypers provides a wide range of news and analysis products aimed at keeping the ecommerce, fintech, and payment professionals informed about latest developments in the industry.

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Fintech News

JULY 13, 2025

Australia’s central bank has announced that Project Acacia is moving into its next phase of testing to examine how crypto assets and central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) could support the growth of the country’s wholesale tokenised asset markets.

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Fintech Finance

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

FORUS Digital has positioned itself in Africa to help central banks and commercial banks in their journey towards CBDC using the UDPN All-in-One Digital Currency Sandbox. Statista indicated that the Digital Assets market in Africa is projected to reach a revenue of US$3,115.0m

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The Paypers

JUNE 23, 2025

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JUNE 20, 2025

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The Paypers

JUNE 17, 2025

According to OpenPayd officials, the addition of stablecoin capabilities is intended to support business use cases such as treasury management, global payouts, and digital asset services.

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JUNE 20, 2025

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Finextra

JUNE 18, 2025

Initiatives are also exploring Instant Payment use cases based on nexo frameworks. Work is actively underway to integrate Instant Payments use cases. It supports: Interoperability across multiple payment types and acceptance environments — including in-store, e-commerce, SoftPOS, cards, mobile, and QR codes.

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The Paypers

JUNE 25, 2025

This integration allows banks, fintech companies, and merchants worldwide to access an improved, scalable, and secure payment platform. The push for modernisation came as financial institutions faced increasing pressure to compete with fintech challengers, meet evolving customer expectations, and comply with tightening regulatory standards.

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The Payments Association

JULY 18, 2025

Omar Salem Financial regulation and fintech partner, Fox Williams "Post–31 March 2025, the UK regulator is focused on supervision and in the future may hold firms, and potentially individuals, accountable for operational resilience breaches. However, use cases that demonstrate existing payments will also be accepted.

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The Paypers

JUNE 25, 2025

The potential for new ideas is large, as banks and financial institutions can test various methods, including retail and digital assets, across person-to-person, person-to-merchant, and business-to-business use cases. The A2A sandbox enables this, allowing banks and fintechs to prepare for shifts in the payments landscape.

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The Paypers

JUNE 20, 2025

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The Paypers

JUNE 23, 2025

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The Paypers

JUNE 25, 2025

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The Paypers

JUNE 25, 2025

This infrastructure enables financial institutions, fintechs and public sector entities to experiment with and verify digital asset applications. The Paypers provides a wide range of news and analysis products aimed at keeping the ecommerce, fintech, and payment professionals informed about latest developments in the industry.

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The Paypers

JUNE 25, 2025

TerraPay believes that Canada’s fintech and digital banking sectors are growing rapidly, creating opportunities for new payment solutions and collaborations.

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JUNE 25, 2025

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JUNE 25, 2025

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JUNE 25, 2025

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The Paypers

JUNE 25, 2025

The Paypers provides a wide range of news and analysis products aimed at keeping the ecommerce, fintech, and payment professionals informed about latest developments in the industry. Source: Link Free Headlines in your E-mail Every day we send out a free e-mail with the most important headlines of the last 24 hours.

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Fintech News

MAY 27, 2024

Central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) have largely existed in the virtual realm, with transactions initiated primarily through web and mobile interfaces. However, a significant shift has occurred with the launch of Eurasia’s first CBDC cards in Kazakhstan, providing 20 million consumers with a new, tangible way to manage CBDC funds.

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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). Meanwhile, the the direct model is where central banks manage wallets and settlements within a centralised CBDC system.

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Fintech News

MARCH 25, 2024

Swift, the global financial messaging cooperative, revealed that the latest round of experiments conducted within a collaborative Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) sandbox has shown promising results for the application of CBDCs and digital tokens. said Tom Zschach, Chief Innovation Officer at Swift.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

But as to what a CBDC might look like in the eurozone, ECB executive board member Yves Mersch said a speech earlier this year that retail central bank digital currency (CBDC) is a game-changer and that retail CBDCs would be a “main focus.”

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The Fintech Times

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

While 134 countries and currency unions, representing 98 per cent of global GDP, are currently exploring a central bank digital currency (CBDC), the Bank of Canada has revealed it is officially putting efforts to introduce a digital version of the Canadian dollar on pause. Could a CBDC still be in Canada’s future?

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The Fintech Times

AUGUST 28, 2024

On 28 August 2024, HKMA officially launched the Project Ensemble Sandbox, which will test a wide range of tokenisation use cases, including the settlement of tokenised real-world assets (such as green bonds, carbon credits, aircraft, electric vehicle charging stations, and treasury management).

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 18, 2020

As reported by Reuters , the Sand Dollar – a new digital currency issued and backed by the Bahamian central bank – is now in circulation, and bit by bit, has been making inroads into retail use cases. Central Banks Around the World Eye CBDCs. Such central bank efforts toward CBDC might soon get a helping hand.

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The Fintech Times

MAY 29, 2024

This month, The Fintech Times is focusing on the world of digital assets. The idea that digital assets are exclusively some form of currency has been slowly dispelled, as new use cases emerge and are rapidly adopted across the globe. But digital currencies are far from irrelevant. per cent of its population engage with it.

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Fintech News

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Efforts were also made to advance digital assets, tokenization and central bank digital currency (CBDC) experimentation with initiatives such as Project Guardian and Project Orchid expanding to include more use cases and moving towards “live” pilots. and advancing talent.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2020

And there’ll be quite a bit of tinkering with the technology (especially the infrastructure) and the use cases to get there. As many as 80 percent of the 66 central banks polled by the Bank of International Settlements said they were at some stage of CBDC development. Digital dollars are a maybe – but if so, not for a while.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

But: The bank is keeping an eye on the experiences and progress of other nations, and still is researching its own technological and “policy implications” of wholesale forms of CBDC. Separately, of course, the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) has said that a test of a CBDC rests with small retail transactions — not large-volume transactions.

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The Fintech Times

MAY 26, 2024

However, the idea that digital assets are exclusively some form of currency is slowly falling by the wayside as different use cases are emerging and being rapidly adopted. This May, The Fintech Times is looking to showcase some of these new methods and explore how the digital asset ecosystem is evolving.

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Fintech News

JANUARY 9, 2024

The fintech landscape in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region has been evolving at a remarkable pace, with start-ups and established companies redefining how financial services are delivered and consumed. Today, we will explore five top fintech trends in the APAC region for 2024, supported by statistics and insightful information.

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The Fintech Times

AUGUST 19, 2024

The Hong Kong Science and Technology Park In 2023, an estimated 800 fintechs called Hong Kong home, 180 more than five years prior. Today, it is home to closer to 1,000 fintechs and startups. Some of those fintechs headquartered in Hong Kong include the likes of virtual bank WeLab Bank , insurtech Bowtie and digital-only bank ZA Bank.

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The Fintech Times

MARCH 7, 2024

Through the new project, Hong Kong Monetary Authority will explore innovative financial market infrastructure (FMI) that will facilitate seamless interbank settlement of tokenised money through a wholesale CBDC. We welcome global talents and industry players to come to Hong Kong and be part of this very exciting tokenisation journey.”

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Fintech News

OCTOBER 28, 2024

The Singapore Fintech Festival (SFF) has announced the finalists for its 2024 Fintech Excellence Awards, organised in partnership with the Singapore Fintech Association (SFA) and supported by PwC Singapore. Four finalists were shortlisted in each category. Ripple, NETS, Syfe, and YouTrip returned as sponsors this year.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2020

And we’re not talking about the myriad of cryptos that have popped up hither and yon, offered by private companies across what is still a Wild West for issuance (with no real set of security principles, yet) and scattered use cases. Beyond that, national efforts are piecemeal. Fed, the Swiss National Bank and others.

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