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

Fintech News

To speed up progress, MAS is now pushing for participants to commercialise their findings, fostering a connected network for trading 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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Digital Rupiah Inches Closer with Successful Completion of PoC

Fintech News

The processes included converting reserve account balances into digital Rupiah and vice versa, ensuring seamless interoperability with Bank Indonesias Real-Time Gross Settlement (BI-RTGS) system. Addressing interoperability, scalability, and security challenges, Indonesia sets a global example for nations exploring similar initiatives.

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

The Fintech Times

We are encouraged by the keen participation from financial institutions and fellow policymakers to co-create industry standards and risk management frameworks to facilitate commercial deployment of tokenised capital markets products, and scale tokenised markets on an industry-wide basis.”

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How Swift is moving the global financial industry towards instant and frictionless payments

The Payments Association

Swift drives global interoperability and innovation, aligning with the UK’s National Payments Vision to enhance seamless, secure payments. This is an example of how the scale of the Swift network can be leveraged to interoperate market infrastructures to enhance the user experience.

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Payments regulation roadmap: Q3 2025​

The Payments Association

UK and EU divergence on scope and legal frameworks may introduce cross-border compliance and interoperability challenges. Start API and interoperability pilots, building on the existing Open Banking technical infrastructure. transaction history, savings, pensions). transaction history, savings, pensions).

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How OpenWay’s Way4 Enabled the First CBDC Card Transaction in Eurasia

Fintech News

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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