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Digital Rupiah Inches Closer with Successful Completion of PoC

Fintech News

Indonesia has reached a significant milestone in its journey toward exploring the potential of Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) with the completion of the Proof of Concept (PoC) for the wholesale Digital Rupiah under the auspices of Bank Indonesias Project Garuda.

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Monetary Authority of Singapore Unveils Plans to Enable Industry-Wide Adoption of Tokenisation

The Fintech Times

Under Project Guardian, an international collaboration of industry and regulators that explores the use of fund and asset tokenisation, the Monetary Authority of Singapore has conducted over 15 industry trials in six currencies across multiple financial products.

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Wallet wars: How digital payments are reshaping finance

The Payments Association

The European PSD2 framework, growing pressure on big techs financial ambitions, and central bank digital currency (CBDC) discussions all indicate a looming regulatory crackdown. Adopt multi-factor authentication (MFA) and biometric verification to reduce fraud risks.

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FinovateEurope 2025: From Interesting Takes to Hot Demos

The Fintech Times

This years Best of Show winners included: Keyless A biometric authentication platform eliminating passwords and multi-factor authentication. With the digital asset market projected to reach $16trillion by 2030, he warned about the risks of digital islands isolated token ecosystems lacking interoperability.

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Payments regulation roadmap: Q3 2025​

The Payments Association

Globally, preparations for central bank digital currencies and evolving open finance frameworks signal longer-term structural change. UK and EU divergence on scope and legal frameworks may introduce cross-border compliance and interoperability challenges. transaction history, savings, pensions). transaction history, savings, pensions).

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Swift Works on Enabling Real-Time Exchange of Digital Assets and Payments

Fintech News

Swift, the global financial messaging network, is actively working to incorporate regulated digital assets and currencies onto its platform. A key focus of these developments is testing multi-ledger Delivery-versus-Payment (DvP) and Payment-versus-Payment (PvP) transactions.

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Fintech in Singapore: 2023 in Review

Fintech News

Developments include cross-border quick response (QR) payment linkages, connectivity between real-time national payment schemes, and the ongoing Singapore Response Code Scheme (SGQR+) project focusing on furthering QR code payment interoperability.

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