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Nigerian central bank adds NFC upgrade to eNaira for contactless payments

Despite the former governor’s ousting nearly two months ago, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) continues to be committed to its central bank digital currency (CBDC) project, showing no indications of abandoning it.According to a report by local news outlet The Sun, the central bank recently enhanced the CBDC mobile

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Nigerian social payments app shuts down crypto exchange services

Nigerian social payments app, Bundle announced on July 20 that it is shutting down its crypto exchange arm. According to a statement released on the company blog, explaining that it is ceasing its crypto exchange operations as it focuses on expanding the services of Cashlink as a payment solution. Bundle stated

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Wholesale CBDC Would Improve Cross-Border Payments, Banque de France Tests Show

"Through these experiments, the Banque de France shows the operational feasibility and practical implementation of the three models it has conceptualized for issuing wCBDC directly on DLT [distributed ledger technology]," the central bank said, adding that different types of DLT were used to test applications in asset tokenization and the

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