The Payments Association

JUNE 16, 2025

Offline settlements with a digital pound: Lessons from the BoE’s report 16 June 2025 by Payments Intelligence LinkedIn Email X WhatsApp What is this article about? A Bank of England experiment proving that offline payments with a digital pound are technically feasible, but complex. Why is it important? What’s next?

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The Payments Association

JUNE 3, 2025

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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Finextra

JUNE 11, 2025

Manual Clearing Houses: Cheques remained the dominant non-cash payment instrument. Clearing houses, often managed by the RBI or lead banks, facilitated the physical exchange and settlement of cheques. This was a step towards automated recurring payments. For instance, CBDC could be programmed for specific uses (e.g.,

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Fintech News

JANUARY 21, 2025

Initiatives such as ASEAN payment connectivity between Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines, are enhancing economic integration and fostering regional trade by linking real-time payment systems. The initiative seeks to establish multilateral linkages of national retail payment systems.

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Fintech News

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Australia has unveiled a three-year initiative to explore the potential of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) with a focus on wholesale CBDC opportunities, industry outreach and regulatory improvements, Brad Jones, Assistant Governor (Financial System) at the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), told the audience at an industry event in September.

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The Fintech Times

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

A new report from the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) supports this as it reveals public interest in a retail CBDC has yet to emerge in the country. The retail payments system and the capabilities currently in place are generally serving Australians well.In

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Some 70 percent of Brazilians use cash as their main payment choice, as reported by Coingeek.com. Brazil’s latest CBDC news follows reports in this space last month that China is also gearing for a 2022 launch of a digital yuan — perhaps most notably for use at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.

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