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In search of ways to heal its travel industry, hurt by the pandemic, Thailand is now recognizing an opportunity to tap into a growing market of cryptocurrency holders. Fostering a “cryptourism atmosphere” is what the country’s tourism agency intends to do, including by minting a new token and facilitating bitcoin
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El Salvador recently became the first country to adopt Bitcoin as a legal tender in financial transactions, and now it plans to issue a stablecoin. The President, who calls himself “the coolest president in the world,” took the first step to equip his citizens with a digital means of paying for
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The chief economist of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), a banking regulator within the U.S. Treasury, believes issuing national bank charters to “fintech shadow banks” could bring “substantial advantages.”In a paper titled “Chartering the FinTech Future,” Charles Calomiris set out how stablecoin providers chartered as
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A euro stablecoin is being issued by one of the oldest banks in the world and it’s being done on the Stellar blockchain network.Announced Wednesday, Germany’s Bankhaus von der Heydt (BVDH), established in 1754, is working with tokenization and digital asset custody technology provider Bitbond for the first direct issuance
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The Russian central bank said it's starting public consultations on the possibilities of issuing a CBDC. Source
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US investment firm Arca has launched an SEC-registered closed-end U.S. Treasury Fund —the first product registered under the American Investment Company Act
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A United States District Court has granted an injunction against Telegram, preventing the company from issuing its GRAM tokens at the present time.Court says that GRAMS are securities under Howey testPer a March 24 filing granting the Securities and Exchange Commission’s request for a preliminary injunction, the Court wrote
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In recent weeks, various central banks have indicated that they are exploring the possibility of issuing their own central bank digital currency, or CBDC. From Tunisia, which was at the center of false reports about the imminent launch of its own “e-Dinar” but confirmed it was studying the issue,
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The Bank of China has recently issued 20 billion Chinese yuan ($2.8 billion) of special bonds, which it has sold in order to fund small and micro-enterprise businesses, according to the China Development Network. This recent issuance of $2.8 billion in bonds is nothing to look twice at and was largely
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Going by recent headlines, it appears as though central banks around the world are planning to or in the process of creating their own digital currencies.The coins, by their disruptive nature, are bound to attract attention from these banks. And with Facebook’s plans to launch the Libra, there are ever-growing
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