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2024 Payment Methods Report: Overview, Insights, and Statistics

Clearly Payments

America Biometric Payments 2 Global, especially mobile-first markets Cash Payments 5 Emerging Markets, some developed regions Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) 1 Asia, Caribbean Credit Cards Overview : Credit cards allow consumers to make purchases on credit, paying later and often with interest.

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Fintech in Singapore: 2023 in Review

Fintech News

Efforts were also made to advance digital assets, tokenization and central bank digital currency (CBDC) experimentation with initiatives such as Project Guardian and Project Orchid expanding to include more use cases and moving towards “live” pilots.

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Asia Moves to Regulate Stablecoins Amid Growing Adoption: Report

Fintech News

In Asia, stablecoins are gaining significant attention, prompting governments to step in with efforts to regulate the sector. The report, released in April 2025, explores Asias rapidly evolving stablecoin landscape, noting that different countries are taking varied approaches to stablecoin integration.

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Tales from the Crypto: Funding Startups, Fighting Fraud, and Why the U.S. is a CBDC Laggard

Finovate

lags behind its peers when it comes to central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), and learn about U.S. Swiss digital asset bank Sygnum scores new funding Has crypto winter yielded to the year’s first crypto unicorn? ” Report: U.S. Department of Justice charges – and a guilty plea- in a $1.9

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