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China Construction Bank (CCB) has tapped Hong Kong-based digital asset exchange Fusang for the issuance of $3 billion-worth of debt securities over a blockchain.According to a Wednesday report by the South China Morning Post, tokenized bond certificates will be issued through the state-owned bank’s Labuan, Malaysia, branch over a period
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Central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) may benefit countries looking to exert greater control over their monetary policy but don’t solve for every crisis, said a report from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) published Monday. While most of the report assessed the different pros and cons, as well as the policy considerations,
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On the weekly recap, NLW looks at growth in institutional investment, big interest among the G20 in CBDCs and a new National Security Council report.On this edition of The Breakdown weekly recap, NLW looks at: Growth in the institutional investment space in cryptoA new 10,000 BTC treasury announcement Reports from the Bank for International
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The U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has published fresh guidance, officially clarifying national banks can provide services to stablecoin issuers in the U.S. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) published stablecoin guidance Monday, providing the first detailed
Read MoreSingapore Exchange (SGX), a major investment holding company in Singapore, has issued its first digital bond powered by blockchain technology.As officially announced on Sept. 1, SGX deployed its digital asset issuance platform to conduct a 400 million Singapore dollar ($294 million) 5.5-year public bond issuance for major local food and
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The Age Appropriate Design Code has completed the Parliamentary process and is being issued by the ICO today, 12 August 2020. The
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Brian Armstrong says Coinbase won’t be listing privacy coins like Monero (XMR) as they’re still untested grounds for regulators in the United States.In a July 24 interview with Peter McCormack on his “What Bitcoin Did” podcast, Armstrong said he wanted to take a more conservative approach with Coinbase so the
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Mastercard said Monday it had granted Wirex principal membership status, becoming the “first” native cryptocurrency outfit to do so.The membership allows Wirex, a London-based digital payments firm, to issue payment cards directly to consumers, making it easier for people to buy, hold and exchange crypto into fiat money.Raj Dhamodharan,
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After Ethereum co-founder Gavin Wood left the Ethereum Foundation in 2016, he wrote a white paper for a new kind of blockchain — one that would use an innovative form of sharding and cross-chain communication to achieve the kind of scalability and interoperability that Ethereum 1.0 would never be able
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South Korean private sector members recently discussed a crypto-related taxation bill meant to establish capital gains tax for cryptocurrencies. During these discussions on July 13, members indicated crypto gains taxes could rise as high as 20%.Cryptocurrencies could be considered as “goods”Proposed amendments to existing laws also plan to classify cryptocurrencies
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