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13 APAC-Born Companies Recognized Among Top Global Cross-Border Payment Leaders of 2025

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The group owns Alipay, Chinas largest digital payments platform, which connects to international e-wallet platforms through cross-border digital payments solution Alipay+. billion users, while its Aliplay+ service connects more than 35 digital wallets to over 90 million merchants in 66 markets.

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WSPN and DigiFT Forge Strategic Partnership in Web3 Digital Payments and Investment

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WSPN , a globally recognized digital payments leader, has announced a milestone collaboration with DigiFT , the first regulated exchange for on-chain real-world assets (“RWA”), approved as a Recognised Market Operator with a Capital Markets Services license by the Monetary Authority of Singapore.

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Banco Santander, Lloyds Banking Group, and UBS Successfully Settle Pilot Uncleared Margin Transfers in the Sterling Fnality Payment System

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This real-world proof-of-concept proves that Fnality can be used to make bilateral margin payments using the £FnPS, and marks the first instance of a fully regulated Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT)-based payment system being used to settle margin for the purposes of real-world inter-bank derivative exposures.

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SC Ventures and G+D Complete Pilot on Different Types of CBDC Systems

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SC Ventures, the innovation, fintech investment, and ventures arm of Standard Chartered, and Giesecke+Devrient (G+D) successfully completed a proof-of-concept (PoC) on the Universal Digital Payments Network (UDPN). The PoC explored two models.

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France’s Central Bank Latest To Ponder A Digital Currency

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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.

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CORO Global Brings Gold Payment App To Alabama

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CORO says its app is designed to fend off cyberattacks through the use of hashgraph distributed ledger technology (DLT). “Even if people know about the benefits of gold, they may not know how to actually use it as money – that’s why we’ve made it as easy as downloading an app.”.

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Bitcoin Daily: Italy's Banks Test Digital Euro On DLT

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The experiments aim to examine a digital euro’s technical feasibility as well as its “programmability” as a coin separate from a central bank digital currency, (CBDC) according to CoinDesk. The European Central Bank has been a vocal supporter of a digital euro, advocating for a CBDC.