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Retail Merchants Linked to Etsy and SVB Facing Delayed Payments

Etsy and its peers like Shopify have had to kickstart their restrategizing agenda. Retail merchants selling on several online marketplaces including American e-commerce marketplace Etsy Inc (NASDAQ: ETSY) are reportedly seeing delays in their payments owing to their dependence on distraught Silicon Valley Bank (SVB). As a marketplace that operates round

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BIS Releases Report On ‘Project Icebreaker’ — Develops Cross-Border Retail CBDC Payment Model – Bitcoin News

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has released a report summarizing the “Project Icebreaker” trial, which explored the potential advantages and difficulties of utilizing a retail central bank digital currency (CBDC) in cross-border payments. The experiment was designed to test “the technical feasibility of conducting cross-border – cross-currency transactions between

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IMF offers Jordan’s central bank recommendations for implementing retail CBDC

The Central Bank of Jordan is closer to its next step toward a retail central bank digital currency (rCBDC) with the completion of an International Monetary Fund technical report on the country’s markets. The IMF conducted a three-month mission last year to assist the bank with preparations for a CBDC

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Most Retail Crypto Investors Lost Money Over the Last 7 Years, According to BIS Analysis – Bitcoin News

According to data from the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), published in the latest BIS Bulletin No. 69, researchers assessed that, on average, most users lost money on their investments over the past seven years. Onchain data, metrics from exchanges, and cryptocurrency application download statistics gathered by BIS researchers suggest

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