2019-5-2 13:23 |
Singapore and Canada have managed to send each other a digital transaction without an intermediary
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By CCN. com: The Bank of Canada and the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has conducted a successful pilot test of central bank-backed crypto assets to clear cross-border and cross-currency payments.
2019-5-2 14:33 | |
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Central banks in Canada and Singapore claim to have successfully completed a cross-border payment using distributed ledger technology. The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) announced earlier today that it has successfully settled an international payment with The Bank of Canada, in what it refers to as “Project Jasper-Ubin.
2019-5-2 14:03 | |
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The central banks of Canada and Singapore have for the first time settled cross-border payments using blockchain and central bank digital currencies.
2019-5-2 12:00 | |
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Ripple (XRP) broke out of the wider cryptocurrency bearish bias on Monday, rising as much as 14% after Coinbase Pro’s announcement. The San Francisco-based crypto exchange had stated that it would add XRP to its basket of tradeable assets to diversify its offerings.
2019-2-27 19:02 | |
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Largest US crypto brand, Coinbase says XRP is coming to Coinbase Pro. The long-awaited listing will initially come to users in the US (excluding New York), the UK, Canada, Singapore, Australia and supported countries in the European Union.
2019-2-26 00:22 | |
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After years of lobbying, hoping, wishing and disappointment, it has finally happened. XRP is launching on Coinbase Pro. In its announcement today, Coinbase revealed that support for XRP will initially be available for Coinbase Pro users in the U.
2019-2-26 23:07 | |
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Ripple’s price has jumped 12% on the news that the cryptocurrency is soon to be available on Coinbase Pro. XRP deposits must reach “sufficient” levels before trading officially begins, but the US crypto exchange is allowing deposits as of 10 am PT this morning.
2019-2-26 22:22 | |
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Huobi is back in Japan, this time as a fully regulated exchange under Japan's Financial Services Agency (FSA). Following its merger with BitTrade, Huobi Japan Holding Ltd.
2019-1-19 19:03 | |
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Technology lawyer Addison Cameron-Huff launched his new, Toronto-based, all-crypto legal firm on January 3, 2019, Bitcoin’s 10th anniversary, as a statement of his commitment to working for and promoting Bitcoin and cryptocurrency-based businesses.
2019-1-11 21:17 | |
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According to a brand new in depth report taken up and jointly published by the collective central banks of Canada, the United Kingdom and Singapore on November 15th, shed some profound light on the impact that Central bank Digital Currencies would have on interbank payments and transactions. According to the report, CDBC's would help improve […]
2018-12-4 11:48 | |
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Popular cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase is launching Zcash (ZEC) trading on its professional trading platform Coinbase Pro. The announcement made via Coinbase’s blog page states that inbound transfers of the currency will begin at 10 p.
2018-11-30 02:08 | |
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In a November 2018 report by the Bank of Canada, Bank of England and the Monetary Authority of Singapore, emerging technologies and opportunities in the banking industry have been explored including the use of Wholesale Central Bank Digital Currencies.
2018-11-16 16:05 | |
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With contributing reporting from Jimmy Aki. Christine Lagarde, head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), suggested a new course of action for central banks around the world: turn their fiat currencies digital.
2018-11-15 22:38 | |
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Huobi Japan Holding Ltd. has acquired a majority stake in Japanese cryptocurrency exchange BitTrade, marking the top-three exchange’s formal entry into the Japanese market.
2018-9-14 22:25 | |
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Launched in 2009, the social networking app Foursquare was hailed as providing a cutting-edge approach for users to share their location with friends. Called a “check-in,” people would reveal their location through their mobile device by selecting the venue they were frequenting at that time.
2018-8-15 17:34 | |
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“When Blockchain Revolution came out, bitcoin was worth around $7 billion. Today, it’s more than twenty-two times that. Bitcoin is the workhorse of the cryptocurrency world and the cryptocurrency that launched a thousand ships.
2018-6-19 22:15 | |
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The Central Bank of Brazil has initiated the second phase of its central bank digital currency project, DREX, aiming to demonstrate trade finance as a new use case. In a press release on Nov. 19, Brazil’s central bank announced it…
According to the results of the 2023 BIS survey on central bank digital currencies and crypto, only 12% of central banks are planning to issue retail CBDCs in the mid-term. A recent survey by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS)…
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The answer again is regulation, although this time the suggested regulation looks a lot like central bank co-option.
The answer again is regulation, although this time, the suggested regulation looks a lot like central bank co-option.