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ANZ Takes Lead in Australia’s Banking Sector with A$DC Stablecoin

Chainlink’s Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) might provide a lasting solution to the challenge posed by blockchain fragmentation. In a recent development, the Australia and New Zealand Banking Group (ANZ), one of Australia’s major banks, is taking significant steps toward the launch of its bank-issued stablecoin A$DC. This move follows a successful

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ANZ Bank Completes Carbon Credits Trading as Part of Australia’s CBDC Pilot

Australia's CBDC pilot, run by the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) and the Digital Finance Cooperative Research Centre (DFCRC), began last year to explore use cases for a CBDC. The DFCRC is a 180 million Australian dollar (US$124.3 million) program, funded by industry partners, universities and the Australian Government. Source

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ANZ bank completes Australian CBDC use case for carbon credit trading

Australia and New Zealand Banking Group (ANZ) has completed its use case in the pilot project run by the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) and Digital Finance Cooperative Research Centre using central bank digital currency (CBDC). ANZ partnered with Grollo Carbon Ventures (GCV) to trade carbon credits.ANZ tokenized Australian Carbon

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Australian ‘Big Four’ bank ANZ halts cash withdrawals from many branches

ANZ, one of Australia’s “Big Four” banks, will cease facilitating withdrawals and deposits from a number of its Australian branches as it looks to push its customers toward using an ever-dwindling number of ATMs and deposit machines.The decision has received pushback, with critics such as Patricia Sparrow, CEO of the

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Aussie banks ANZ and NAB won’t ‘endorse’ retail speculation on crypto

Executives at two of Australia’s “big four” banks have ruled out allowing retail customers to trade cryptocurrency on their platforms, with one reasoning that customers don’t understand “basic financial well-being.”Speaking at the Australian Financial Review Banking Summit on Tuesday Maile Carnegie, executive for retail banking at Australia and New Zealand

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ANZ bank settles debanking case with Aussie Bitcoin trader

Bitcoiner Allan Flynn has settled his first complaint with the Australia and New Zealand Banking Group (ANZ) over being unilaterally debanked in 2018 due to his occupation as a Digital Currency Exchange (DCE). The settlement comes 20 months after the Canberra resident first filed complaints with the ACT Civil and Administrative

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