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Project Ensemble: Hong Kong Embraces Asset Tokenisation With New Sandbox

The Fintech Times

Through the project , HKMA explores financial market infrastructure that facilitates seamless interbank settlement of tokenised money through a wCBDC. Having completed building the sandbox, HKMA will use it to facilitate interbank settlement using experimental tokenised money, focusing on transactions involving these tokenised assets.

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Fed Says America Needs Instant Payments As Soon As Possible

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Federal Reserve Board members this week shed some light on the timing and mechanics of FedNow — an always-on, fully interoperable interbank-settlement service that will give rise to instant payments in the United States. For the Federal Reserve, real-time payments will take time — three or four years’ time, to be specific.

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FedNow’s Montgomery: Gearing Up For 2023-24 — And Instant Payments Competition

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As reported in August, the Fed had announced some additional details of the 24/7 year-round interbank settlement service through a program that began to take shape in 2019, geared toward speeding processing times tied to instant payments (and featuring a clearing function). Looking Toward Interoperability And Scale .

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Fintech in Singapore: 2023 in Review

Fintech News

To complement the digital money trials, MAS said that it will commence the development of CBDC for wholesale interbank settlement in 2024. Future pilots could include the use of the “live” wholesale CBDC for the settlement of cross-border securities trade, MAS said. and advancing talent.

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PayFi Teams With The Clearing House For Real-Time Payments Platform

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The network is the first to deliver 24/7 clearing and interbank settlement, including the real-time movement of money and enriched data between participating financial institutions,” PayFi said. PayFi said its RTP network is the first new core payments infrastructure in over 40 years.