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The head of the Swiss National Bank (SNB) has announced that the bank will launch a wholesale central bank digital currency (wCBDC) pilot project, according to a report. Reuters quoted bank chair Thomas Jordan as saying the project would begin “soon.” The wCBDC will be issued on the Swiss SIX digital
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As asset tokenization continues at a rapid pace, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and 11 financial institutions examined infrastructure models to facilitate tokenized asset trading. The key to unlocking the full benefits of the technology is open and interoperable digital asset networks, the MAS said in its Project Guardian
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Singapore’s MAS created the report with 11 banking giants to run several pilots improve market issuance by tokenizing assets. The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) is proposing a framework to develop open and interoperable networks for tokenizing assets. On Monday, the central bank published a report containing details of its proposal, called Project
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The digital euro holds something in store for every stakeholder, Governor of the Banque de France François Villeroy de Galhau told commercial bankers on June 22. Disintermediation is not in the works, he said at the Global Official Institutions Conference hosted by French multinational bank BNP Paribas.Before addressing the euro
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Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell argued for the need for strong central-bank oversight in stablecoin regulations being crafted by lawmakers in the House Financial Services Committee. Source
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The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), in collaboration with the IMF and other central banks, is proposing common conditions for retail payments with digital money on a distributed ledger. Source
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The details behind Binance’s failed efforts to register for a virtual asset service provider (VASP) license in the Netherlands will remain unclear due to confidentiality requirements of the central bank’s supervisory laws.Binance announced that it would terminate its services in the Netherlands on June 16 with immediate effect, having failed
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“I think if you look across the range of experiments that we have done in the Innovation Hub, increasingly in the CBDC space, whether it's wholesale or retail, we are experimenting and exploring different dimensions, [such as] cross border, offline, security,” Hopwood Road said. Source
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Banco de la República, Colombia’s central bank, is partnering with Peersyst and Ripple to pilot blockchain technology on the XRP ledger. The Ministry of Information and Communications Technologies (MinTIC) in Colombia will oversee the project, which will use Ripple's recently-launched central bank digital currency (CBDC) platform. Ripple and @Peersyst are partnering
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According to the bill, the central bank of Brazil has control over crypto firms, while the CVM handles tokens that are securities. Brazil has introduced a new law that passes regulation of crypto firms to the country’s central bank. President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Lula) signed the law increasing the
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