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Central Banks Successfully Test APIs in Powering Retail CBDCs, Including for Offline Payments

“I think if you look across the range of experiments that we have done in the Innovation Hub, increasingly in the CBDC space, whether it's wholesale or retail, we are experimenting and exploring different dimensions, [such as] cross border, offline, security,” Hopwood Road said. Source

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Privacy should be considered in ‘potential retail CBDC’ — Treasury official

Privacy and the ability to transact anonymously should be considerations in the design of a digital dollar, a United States Treasury official has said.On June 13 the Treasury Department’s Assistant Secretary for Financial Institutions Graham Steele spoke at a payments-focused conference in Texas about the Federal Reserve’s controversial FedNow system

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Thailand launches retail CBDC pilot with 2 banks and Singapore payment service

The Bank of Thailand will launch a retail central bank digital currency (CBDC) pilot project in a regulatory sandbox this month. Three payment providers will take part, according to local media. The project will involve up to 10,000 users and run through August.Bank of Ayudhya (Krungsri), Siam Commercial Bank and

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Bitcoin Price (BTC) Jumps to Key Price Resistance as Hong Kong Opens Crypto Trading For Retail Investors

"This looks like a non-macro-related spot-based move, and the timing coincides with the news that Hong Kong will allow retail trading of BTC and ETH on licensed digital asset platforms as of June 1," Noelle Acheson, author of the Crypto Is Macro Now newsletter, said in Tuesday's edition. "This is

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Hong Kong to Permit Licensed Crypto Exchanges to Offer Services to Retail Investors

Hong Kong will open crypto trading activities to retail investors starting June 1, 2023. Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has released the results of its consultation paper on regulating crypto assets in the country. In an announcement on May 23, 2023, the financial watchdog said it received 152

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