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Bilateral Saudi, UAE Digital Currency Experiment Shows Benefits of Distributed Ledgers, Central Banks Say

The central banks of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have concluded a digital currency (CBDC) pilot, finding that distributed ledger technology can improve cross-border transactions and meet the demands of financial privacy in a purely digital context. In a 93-page overview of the “Aber” project, the two central

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Norway Central Bank Official Says ‘No Acute Need’ to Introduce a Digital Currency

The deputy governor of the Norway’s central bank said there’s no urgent need for the nation to launch a digital krone in a speech at the country’s Finance Payments Conference on Thursday. Outlining the Norges Bank’s current assessment of a central bank digital currency (CBDC) for real-time payments, Ida Wolden

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Societe Generale Cuts Deal With Blockchain Behemoth ConsenSys To Back Its Central Bank Digital Currency Experiments With Technology, Expertise and Strategy

Societe Generale – Forge, the digital capital markets platform of the Societe Generale Group, has chosen one of Blockchain leading companies ConsenSys to provide technology and services as

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Silvergate Bank Sees 40% Increase in Deposits From Digital Currency Customers

Silvergate Bank added $586 million in new deposits from firms and individuals in the cryptocurrency industry in the third quarter of 2020, according to an earnings report released before market-open on Monday.The cost of those deposits dropped from 0.37% down to 0.01% and the bank’s fee income for digital currency

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PayPal de-platforms conservative domain registrar over ‘alternative currency’

PayPal has terminated its services to domain registrar Epik, allegedly due to a risk of money laundering through its “alternative currency” Masterbucks, according to an article on Mashable.However, in a series of open letters, Robert Davis, Epik’s senior vice president of strategy and communications has suggested that the motive behind

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