Finextra

JUNE 30, 2025

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. billion in April.

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Finextra

JUNE 11, 2025

Clearing houses, often managed by the RBI or lead banks, facilitated the physical exchange and settlement of cheques. This was labor-intensive and time-consuming. Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC - Digital Rupee): Policy: RBI is actively piloting both wholesale and retail versions of the Digital Rupee (e₹).

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

Bank of England Deputy Governor Jon Cunliffe said it isn't his job to shield banks from the coming shift to digital currencies, Reuters reported. Andrew Bailey , governor of the BoE, said over the summer that the BoE is closely examining how the idea of a digital currency would work.

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PYMNTS

JULY 30, 2020

s central bank announced on Thursday (July 30) that it has hired IT firm Accenture to revamp and modernize what is known as the Real-Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) service, which handles daily transactions worth more than $895 million between large financial institutions (FIs).

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Payments: This category includes companies working on tech like payment currencies, stablecoins (cryptocurrency pegged to the value of a non-volatile asset like the dollar), and real-time gross settlement (RTGS) systems that can enable transactions within a DLT-based capital markets framework.

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Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) Blockchain Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) Money Laundering 98

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

As Canada gears up to launch its real-time payments system, the Real-Time Rail (RTR), Payments Canada , the entity at the head of the initiative, has announced that Mastercard -owned Vocalink has been chosen as the clearing and settlement solution provider for the new payment rail.

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B2B Blockchain Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) Real Time Payments 104

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 25, 2019

Enterprise software firm SAP is teaming up with professional services firm Accenture and blockchain company R3 to develop a distributed ledger technology (DLT) solution that aims to accelerate the settlement of payments between banks and customers. A press release issued on Thursday (Oct. A press release issued on Thursday (Oct. ”

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