2023-10-4 02:43 |
Sergio Massa’s stance on central bank digital currencies appears to be in complete opposition to Javier Milei, a pro-Bitcoin candidate who wants to abolish Argentina’s central bank. origin »
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The Bank of England has also started recruiting for its central bank digital currency engagement forum.
2023-8-9 19:53 | |
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If Musk wants to build an instant cross-border network, he'll find central bank real-time systems have moved on quite a bit since his days at PayPal, says J.P. Koning.
2023-7-6 19:26 | |
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The central bank wants to see innovative interventions in financial markets – but under existing rules.
2023-6-30 12:04 | |
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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) wants to create a global central bank digital currency (CBDC) system in an effort to connect countries and allow seamless cross-border transactions, Reuters reported.
2023-6-20 22:50 | |
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The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe has said the tokens will be issued by May 8.
2023-5-5 11:04 | |
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Mexico’s government has taken a significant step towards making Bitcoin a legal means of payment in the country. The move comes after the country’s central bank released a draft regulation that would require banks and other financial institutions to recognize Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies as legitimate forms of payment.
2023-4-30 00:06 | |
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The ECB wants the CBDC to be universally accepted, and usable by those without bank accounts, the central banker said
2023-4-24 19:01 | |
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The country's central bank wants people to be able to exchange Zimbabwe dollars for the gold-backed token so they can hedge against the currency's volatility.
2023-4-24 12:23 | |
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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is looking to take steps to prevent residents of the Sunshine State from having CBDCs imposed on them. Surveillance and Control Central bank digital currencies are...
2023-3-22 19:39 | |
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With the rise of central Bank digital currency (CBDC) emerging and proving a notable use case, several central banks across the globe have been pressured into a race to work and experiment with developing their a central bank digital currency (CBDC).
2023-3-1 20:30 | |
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The central bank wants full control of eNaira, and is in early talks with blockchain platform R3 to develop the technology, according to the report.
2023-2-22 16:01 | |
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The central bank of India wants to proceed with CBDC testing in the smoothest way possible, deputy governor Rabi Sankar said.
2023-2-9 17:02 | |
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India wants to launch its central bank digital currency at a national level by the end of 2023, but early into its pilot, the Reserve Bank of India has identified challenges.
2023-2-8 06:00 | |
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The head of the Central Bank of Ireland, Gabriel Makhlouf, has advocated for a ban on cryptocurrency-related advertising.
2023-1-27 22:20 | |
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The country, which made bitcoin a legal tender in April, wants to pave way for greater crypto adoption.
2023-1-24 14:04 | |
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Reserve Bank of India Governor Shaktikanta Das has no love for crypto. In fact, he wants to get rid of it through an outright ban, saying that these “are nothing but gambling. ” Das said in his speech at a conference on Friday that RBI’s stance on cryptocurrency remains unchanged.
2023-1-15 13:14 | |
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The current turmoil in the crypto markets shows the need for such requirements as soon as possible, the banking chief said.
2023-1-6 22:40 | |
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The Indian government has displayed antipathy and opposition towards cryptocurrency for a long time and Indian central bank governor Shaktikanta Das had stated earlier that he wants crypto to be banned.
2022-12-21 16:03 | |
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The country joins other jurisdictions in proposing standards for stablecoin issuance.
2022-12-8 20:50 | |
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The head of the Monetary Authority of Singapore, Ravi Menon, insists this stance is "synergistic" and says price speculation is the source of the crypto world's problems.
2022-8-29 11:28 | |
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Recent times have seen a wave of calls for regulating the growing sector of cryptocurrencies due mainly to the astronomically increasing adoption rate, as investors and consumers seek protection over the looming economic downturn.
2022-7-30 16:51 | |
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The Monetary Authority of Singapore is looking into limiting retail participation in the crypto market and restricting leverage trading tools. The Singaporean central bank has already banned crypto marketing in...
2022-7-5 21:03 | |
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UK government wants to empower BoE to oversee administration of companies whose stablecoins have failed
2022-6-1 17:39 | |
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After adopting bitcoin as legal tender, the Central African Republic now wants to create a cryptocurrency economic zone – Sango.
2022-5-24 15:44 | |
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The country's central bank says it wants to understand the technical options before it takes the plunge to issue any new CBDC.
2022-4-7 19:00 | |
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Trials by Riksbank have shown that offline payments can work using the CBDC, but the central bank is also looking at privacy concerns.
2022-4-7 14:35 | |
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Bank of Russia wants to declare all crypto-related activities, including mining, illegal
2022-1-20 15:21 | |
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Pakistan’s finance and law ministries are yet to make a decision on a potential blanket ban on crypto in the country.
2022-1-14 13:18 | |
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Last week, sources in the financial markets industry revealed that Russia’s central bank (Centrobank) wants to bar the country’s residents from buying Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Consequently, one of the currently considered ways of doing so is to block certain merchant category codes (MCCs), a knowledgeable source revealed to Forbes today.
2021-12-25 18:00 | |
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The Russian central bank wants to ban investments in cryptocurrencies in Russia, citing the growing number of crypto transactions as a threat to financial stability. Russia Mulls Over Crypto Ban Russia’s central bank is attempting to outlaw cryptocurrency investments, escalating the country’s long-standing distrust of Bitcoin and other digital assets.
2021-12-18 07:11 | |
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The central bank of Russia (Centrobank) is reportedly seeking to bar the country’s residents from buying Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, two anonymous financial market sources revealed to Reuters today.
2021-12-17 10:30 | |
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The metaverse and NFTs are in the crosshairs of the People’s Bank of China, which wants to track them with Anti-Money Laundering tools.
2021-12-2 14:35 | |
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Nigeria and its central bank have been making strides in terms of increasing utility of its national digital currency. The Central Bank of Nigeria [CBN] wants to make the e-Naira interoperable with otThe post 'Full implementation' of Nigeria's eNaira to occur in four phases, includes interoperability appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2021-11-23 21:00 | |
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Key takeaways Former U. S. speaker Newt Gingrich suggests that emerging economies adopt Bitcoin to hedge against inflation. Inflation keeps growing in the U. S. even as food, and other goods reach their highest prices in a decade.
2021-10-23 19:57 | |
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Infamous US whistleblower shares his highly negative take on central bank digital currencies, saying that the State wants to be in the center of every transaction
2021-10-10 12:24 | |
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Nearly every day as of late, scary headlines herald the demise of cryptocurrencies while federal governments and regulators all over the world crackdown on the enigmatic digital assets. ‘SEC Working Overtime to Take Control of Crypto Markets’, ‘People’s Bank of China Rules All Crypto-Related Trading Illegal’, ‘Russia’s Central Bank Wants to Slow Down Cryptocurrency Payments’, ‘Indian Authorities Consider Taxing Cryptocurrency Trades’, to name a few.
2021-10-5 14:01 | |
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The world is still waiting for countless central banks around the world to start launching their CBDCs, which should start happening very soon now. However, there are also many who are still only starting to join the effort to go crypto on a local level, with Bhutan being the most recent example.
2021-9-24 14:43 | |
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The Russian central bank is planning to slow down payments to crypto exchanges and combat suspicious crypto activity.
2021-9-15 15:48 | |
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Asheesh Birla, the general manager at RippleNet, recently revealed that Ripple, the San Francisco-based distributed ledger startup, has been talking with central banks for a while now. Ripple Wants In On CBDCs While some in the crypto community have shunned XRP as a banker’s cryptocurrency that deviates from Satoshi Nakamoto’s original vision, Ripple is determined […]
2021-7-29 15:57 | |
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Written by a Professor of Finance from Yale School of Management and an attorney at the Federal Reserve System, wants regulators to take a lesson from history, the Free Banking Era because the central bank must have a “monopoly on money issuance.
2021-7-20 16:07 | |
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The General Manager of the Bank of International Settlements (BIS), Agustin Carstens, sent a chilling message regarding the future direction of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). “We don’t know who’s using a $100 bill today and we don’t know who’s using a 1,000 peso bill today.
2021-7-10 03:00 | |
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Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska wants the Bank of Russia, the country’s central bank, to embrace cryptocurrency, citing El Salvador’s bitcoin law as an example. El Salvador recently passed a bill making bitcoin legal tender in the country.
2021-6-21 06:30 | |
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Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan has urged her country to be ready for emerging fintech by paving the way for cryptocurrencies. She also urged the country’s central bank to begin the necessary preparations for a step-change in global attitudes towards banking.
2021-6-16 15:35 | |
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Tanzania’s president wants the country’s central bank to begin exploring Bitcoin and digital assets.
2021-6-15 07:30 | |
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However, the central bank wants the banks and financial institutions to continue customer due diligence for transactions in Virtual Currency. The post Reserve Bank of India Directs Banks & Regulated Entities to Stop Deplatforming Crypto Customers first appeared on BitcoinExchangeGuide.
2021-6-1 16:51 | |
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South Korea’s central wants to carry out a testnet for its central bank digital currency (CBDC). According to the announcement, the main reason for the test is to test whether CBDC can be used for settlement and remittance for goods and services.
2021-5-24 13:18 | |
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South Korea’s central bank is the latest entity seeking powers to monitor crypto trading activity in the country.
2021-5-13 13:41 | |
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The European Central Bank (ECB) has requested EU lawmakers to confer bank control over the issuance of stablecoins within the region. Reuters reported today that the ECB, via a legal memo issued on February 19, requested exclusive rights to determine stablecoin future within its jurisdiction.
2021-2-25 18:00 | |
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The European Central Bank finally tables its official opinion regarding crypto regulations to the top decision-making again, European Commission. In their official opinion, the ECB now wants the EU members of parliament to grant its veto powers regarding the legal status of stablecoins such as Facebook-supported-Diem.
2021-2-23 21:11 | |
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Two years have passed since El Salvador became the first nation in the world to recognize Bitcoin as legal tender. It’s unclear how the decision will ultimately affect the nation, which was received with both excitement and cynicism.
On the sidelines of the G20 meeting in India, IMF managing director Kristalina Georgieva said the agency would prefer to regulate crypto than an outright ban.
The state senator also introduced a similar bill to make Bitcoin legal tender in 2022 but did not succeed.
In 2022, nation state Bitcoin adoption accelerated, setting the stage for even more progress this year.
Curtis Loftis and other SC officials spent five days in El Salvador experiencing first-hand the country’s Bitcoin adoption.
A slew of guests discuss the historic one-year anniversary of President Nayib Bukele announcing El Salvador’s plan to adopt bitcoin as legal tender.