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German Central Bank Joins MAS-Led Project Guardian

Fintech News

As a member of the Project Guardian policymaker group, the Bundesbank will contribute to cross-border collaboration by working with other central banks and institutions to develop common standards and improve interoperability for this emerging technology.

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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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CBDCs in practice: What we’ve learned from the early movers

The Payments Association

Central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) have rapidly evolved from theoretical concepts into live pilots and national deployments. From Asia to the Caribbean and Europe, central banks are grappling with how to digitise public money while preserving trust, utility, and sovereignty.

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France’s Central Bank Latest To Ponder A Digital Currency

PYMNTS

The First Deputy Governor of the central bank of France, Denis Beau, spoke in support of a blockchain-based settlement system that would allow for faster transfers of euros, as well as be more cost-efficient, according to a report by Yahoo! The ECB has been open to the idea, and could already be experimenting.

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Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) in 2024

Clearly Payments

Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) have received attention in recent years as central banks worldwide explore the potential to evolve the way we conduct financial transactions. Europe : The European Central Bank (ECB) is actively working on a digital euro. According to the World Bank, around 1.7

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Cboe Clear Europe participates in Eurosystem CBDC trial

Finextra

Cboe Clear Europe, the largest pan-European clearing house, has successfully participated in the Eurosystem’s recent exploratory work testing the use of new technologies for the settlement of wholesale transactions in central bank money.

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Project Meridian FX: Joint Project by the Eurosystem and London Centres, and the Bank of England, to Test Synchronised Settlement in FX

Fintech Finance

The project will provide insights on how operators of real-time gross settlement (RTGS) systems could enable interoperability with new payments technologies, such as distributed ledger technology (DLT).