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The Reserve Bank of India could commence preliminary central bank digital currency (CBDC) trials before the end of the year.Speaking to CNBC on Thursday, RBI governor Shaktikanta Das said that the central bank was “being extremely careful” in its handling of a potential digital rupee even as its counterparts around
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The Bank of Thailand (BOT) has revealed that it plans to develop and test its retail CBDC in the second quarter of 2022. This development was revealed by Vachira Arromdee, the assistant governor of BOT’s Financial Markets Operation Group. She added that the initial pilot tests would be conducted within a
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The Australian Border Force (ABF), Infocomm Media Development Authority of Singapore (IMDA), and Singapore Customs, along with other industry representations, have concluded a blockchain trial project analyzing the status of the countries' digital verification systems in issuing and verifying trade documents.The collaborative venture was a part of the Australia-Singapore Digital
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Tech giant Samsung has revealed that it will take part in the central bank digital currency pilot project by the Bank of Korea. Samsung Joins BOK Digital Currency Pilot Project This latest development was revealed by the local news outlet The Korea Times on August 12, 2021. Korea’s apex bank began trials
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Ghana’s central bank has inked a partnership deal with German banknote and securities printing company Giesecke+Devrient (G+D), for a retail central bank digital currency (CBDC) pilot. Ghana Progresses With Digital Cedi The Bank of Ghana announced the news of the agreement with the German company via a press release on Wednesday (August
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Akoin, the cryptocurrency project developed by Senegalese-American singer Akon, has achieved success in its initial pilot testing at western Kenya’s Mwale Medical Technology City, or MMTC, preparing for a national rollout in the near future. The pilot, which began in November 2020, is expected to pave the way for $5 million
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