PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

The race toward central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) is tightening, with Brazil reportedly looking to launch one by 2022 in a bid to help digitize payments. Roberto Campos Neto, president of Brazil’s central bank, said his country’s new digital currency will work in concert with its new instant-payments system. “To

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Fintech News

JANUARY 21, 2025

Similarly, Project Nexus , spearheaded by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), aims to improve cross-border payment systems through faster, cheaper, and more transparent transactions. The initiative seeks to establish multilateral linkages of national retail payment systems.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 20, 2020

Add Australia to the list of countries with central banks looking to bring fiat currencies into the digital realm — with some conditions attached. At a high level, Australia’s central bank is joining the likes of China and Sweden in exploring central bank digital coins.

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Finextra

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

The European Central Bank (ECB) welcomes the decision by Seðlabanki Íslands (Central Bank of Iceland) to begin a feasibility assessment to explore the possibility of joining the Eurosystem’s T2 real-time gross settlement system and its TARGET Instant Payment Settlement (TIPS) retail payment system.

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PYMNTS

MAY 27, 2020

But the question arises: Once they’ve been created and backed by central banks, what do you do with them once you have them? As noted in this space last week, about 80 percent of 66 central banks queried by the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) are working on central bank digital currencies (CBDC).

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Policymakers at the European Central Bank (ECB) will meet in Frankfurt on Wednesday (Dec. Lagarde has vocalized that she favors central banks releasing electronic money. When she led the International Monetary Fund, she said it could uphold public goals like economic cooperation and payment anonymity.

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The Paypers

MARCH 20, 2025

Telr, a payments provider in MENA, has obtained a Retail Payment Services Licence from the Central Bank of the UAE to optimise digital transactions.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 3, 2020

The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), the country’s central bank, is considering reducing the cost of electronic payments for merchants and consumers as COVID-19 makes e-banking preferable, Assistant Governor Michele Bullock said on Wednesday.

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The Fintech Times

APRIL 9, 2025

The Central Bank of the UAE (CBUAE) has awarded a Retail Payment Services licence to Tap Payments , the MENA-based payment provider, bolstering the fintech’s aim to unify and simplify payments across the region.

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Fintech News

DECEMBER 10, 2023

The central banks of Vietnam and Cambodia officially launched a cross-border QR payment linkage between the two neighbours on December 3, 2023, at a launching ceremony in Cambodia’s Siem Reap province. The initiation of this project traces back to a Memorandum of Understanding signed by the two central banks on November 8, 2022.

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The Paypers

JANUARY 22, 2025

MENA-P-based financial services enabler Paymob has received the Retail Payment Services (RPS) licence by the Central Bank of the UAE (CBUAE).

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The Fintech Times

MAY 23, 2024

UAE-based Comera Pay, the fintech arm of Comera Financial Holding, has received preliminary approval from the Central Bank of the UAE to operate under two key financial licences. This means Comera Pay can now launch payment solutions that provide simpler, more secure transactions for merchants and consumers.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

A major German digital security firm that is a significant player in the electronic payments sector on Tuesday (Sept. 15) has backed a call by the head of the European Central Bank (ECB) for quick exploration into creating an official European Union digital currency. These issues go to the very heart of the ECB’s mandate.

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Fintech News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Cambodia is implementing new initiatives to expand payment options for tourists by cementing blockchain-based central bank digital currency (CBDC) partnerships. The National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) has been instrumental in facilitating these digital currency evolutions.

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Fintech News

OCTOBER 10, 2024

According to BSP, 50% of retail payments in the Philippines were digitized in 2023. The central bank continues to ramp up efforts to create a conducive environment for fintech-oriented organisations, aiming to attract global investments as more Filipinos embrace digital finance in their daily lives.

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The Paypers

JULY 1, 2024

The central banks of India, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, and the Philippines have announced their plans to launch an instant cross-border retail payments platform.

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The Paypers

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Amazon Payment Services , a digital payments provider operating across the MENA region, has been granted a Retail Payment Services licence by the UAE Central Bank.

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The Paypers

MAY 24, 2023

Payments solution provider Checkout.com has received a Retail Payment Services license from the Central bank of the UAE.

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Fintech News

JULY 3, 2024

To facilitate live implementation, the partner central banks and instant payment system operators have agreed to establish a new entity, the Nexus Scheme Organisation (NSO), which will be responsible for managing this rulebook and ensuring its consistent application across the network. Nexus Scheme Organisation (NSO) structure.

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Fintech Finance

APRIL 10, 2025

Checkout.com was the first global payment service provider to obtain a Retail Payment Services license from the Central Bank of the United Arab Emirates and to bring Mada and Apple Pay to merchants across the UAE and KSA.

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The Paypers

OCTOBER 30, 2020

A former governor of the China-based central bank has addressed the sovereign digital currency issue, the digital CNY being designed to grow retail payments at home and prevent USD dominance.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 8, 2019

for international and domestic payments. Azimo says it has received a license from the Dutch Central Bank to operate in the Netherlands, Cubic Transportation Systems has notched a contract for a mobile ticketing system in Ireland , and Bear Market Coffee in Ireland has gone cashless.

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Fintech Finance

JULY 19, 2024

The CHAPS system was established in 1981 by the Bankers Clearing House in London, but throughout its 43 year history has been operated by several organisations until the Bank of England took over in 2017. Retail payments, such as ATM and card payments, remained unaffected. The New Payments Architecture (NPA) by Pay.UK

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 2, 2020

In today’s top news, the European Central Bank outlines use cases for a digital euro, and Goldman Sachs will buy GM’s credit card business. European Central Bank Outlines Use Cases for Digital Euro. Plus, Walmart is partnering with Clover Health for its new health centers. Goldman to Pay $2.5B

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 3, 2020

According to a paper that debuted this week from the European Central Bank (ECB), central bank currencies in digital form have their uses, but individuals should be dissuaded from holding too much of a hypothetical digital euro. Negative interest rates would not be imposed on the payments “tier.”.

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Fintech Finance

JULY 1, 2024

The European Central Bank (ECB) has published its first progress report on the digital euro preparation phase, which was launched on 1 November 2023 with the aim of laying the foundations for the potential issuance of a digital euro.

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Finextra

JANUARY 22, 2025

Paymob, the leading financial services enabler in MENA-P, announces it has been granted the Retail Payment Services License by the Central Bank of the UAE (CBUAE) after successfully meeting all regulatory conditions and requirements through a rigorous approval process.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 20, 2020

Add Australia to the list of countries with central banks looking to bring fiat currencies into the digital realm — with some conditions attached. At a high level, Australia’s central bank is joining the likes of China and Sweden in exploring central bank digital coins.

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The Paypers

JULY 19, 2021

The Central Bank of the UAE (CBUAE) has unveiled the Retail Payment Services and Card Schemes Regulation, the fourth regulation in the enhancement journey as it prepares the UAE for a new era of digital payments.

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Fintech News

DECEMBER 20, 2023

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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Fintech Finance

APRIL 23, 2025

Pay10 , a leading Alternative Payment Method (APM) provider headquartered in the UAE announces that it has become the first fintech company to go live in production on the Central Bank of the UAE’s (CBUAE) Open Finance Framework, authorizing it to provide payment initiation services including variable recurring payment.

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The Fintech Times

JANUARY 21, 2025

Paymob , the digital payments provider for the Middle East and Africa, has secured a full operating licence from the Central Bank of the United Arab Emirates , enabling the company to play an important role in the country’s digitisation. “With digital payments, we are always at a disadvantage to cash.

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The Paypers

APRIL 23, 2025

Fuze , a Middle East-based financial infrastructure provider, has gained approval from the Central Bank of the UAE ( CBUAE ) for a RPSCS licence.

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Fintech Finance

JANUARY 25, 2024

Through leveraging Open Banking and instant payments, the SPAA scheme will directly support the establishment of a competitive pan-European payment solution, which is a key pillar of the retail payment strategies of both the European Commission (EC) and European Central Bank (ECB).

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The Paypers

APRIL 11, 2025

Tap Payments has received a Retail Payment Services Licence from the Central Bank of the UAE (CBUAE), completing its regulatory approvals across all Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries.

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The Fintech Times

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

One of the biggest challenges central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) have faced in their development is who will actually use them. After all, if a country’s general public is happy with its current payment methods, why would they change?

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The Fintech Times

APRIL 17, 2025

Fexco , the Irish-based financial services and fintech company, has launched payUnite, its global payments orchestration platform, into the airline, retail and hospitality industries, providing a secure, independent, and frictionless payment experience.

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