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UBS Successfully Pilots Blockchain-based Payment Solution for Cross-Border Transactions

The Fintech Times

Global asset manager and Swiss bank UBS has developed and successfully piloted a blockchain-based payment solution, aiming to increase efficiency and transparency, as well as enable the programmability of money movements for corporate and institutional clients. UBS plans to further expand and develop its UBS Digital Cash offering.

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Key considerations for the adoption of digital currencies

Finextra

Central banks across 66 countries are now in the advanced phases of exploring Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs), with 44 pilots including the digital euro already underway. But digital currencies do not stand on their own. Digital currencies can be issued by central banks (aka.

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Bridging Traditional and Blockchain Finance: Clear Junction Launches Stablecoin Transfer Service

The Fintech Times

The launch comes as stablecoins emerge as key tools in global finance, offering real-time settlement, reduced costs, and increased accessibility for cross-border payments, especially in hard-to-reach markets that still face challenges with correspondent bank networks and financial inclusion.

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New BIS Project Explores Wholesale CBDC for Faster, Cheaper Cross Border Payments

Fintech News

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has launched Project Rialto to test the potential for improving instant cross-border payments through a combination of a modular foreign exchange (FX) component and wholesale central bank digital currencies (wCBDC).

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U.S. Faster Payments Council Explores the Practicalities of Cross-Border Payments in a Faster Payments World

Fintech Finance

Faster Payments Council (FPC) , a membership organization devoted to advancing safe, easy-to-use faster payments in the United States, today published its latest research report, titled The Practicalities of Cross-Border Payments in a Faster Payments World.

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France’s Central Bank Latest To Ponder A Digital Currency

PYMNTS

Beau wants to use distributed ledger technology (DLT), and France is considering a central bank digital currency (CBDC). He said that “disorderly approaches and heterogeneous adaptations” could happen if the bank didn’t take decisive action. DLT would also help in terms of cross-border payments, he said.

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Conduit Raises $36 Million Series A to Scale Use of Stablecoins for Cross-Border Payments

Fintech Finance

Conduit , a leading cross-border payments platform powered by stablecoins, announced today it closed a $36 million Series A funding round. Broad Geographic Coverage: Conduit natively supports a diverse range of currencies and payment methods, including highly inflationary local currencies in Latin America, Africa, and Asia. .