US President's working group on stablecoins
The Presidents Working Group on Financial Markets, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) and the Federal Deposit Insurance...
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Central Bro Digital Currency? NZ Reserve Bank seeks public opinion on CBDCs
Te Pūtea Matua, the Reserve Bank of New Zealand (Reserve Bank) has called for public opinion regarding the issuance of a Central Bank...
HSBC Report: CBDC could be better than stablecoins
HSBC, a multinational British Bank with total assets of ~$3 trillion, has praised CBDCS as the new form of digital money while...
Stablecoins as securities? Gensler continues to "crack down" on crypto without clear reason
During a recent hearing before the Senate Banking Committee, Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Gary Gensler has continued to...
A Vast Step Forward for Hopeful Crypto Customers
Vast, a United States bank with Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) insurance and a Federal Reserve charter, has become the...
BTC Markets Electrifies Banking with Volt
The Australian Financial Review has reported (paywall) that one of Australia's oldest digital currency exchanges, BTC Markets, has...
Cuban Currency Solution: Cuba to Recognise Cryptocurrency
The Republic of Cuba has announced it will begin recognising and regulating cryptocurrencies. Resolution 215, published in the country's...
Coming full circle: Square seeks ASX listing with acquisition of Afterpay
The Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) has not been viewed as friendly towards digital currency, most recently having the embarrassing...
Deustche Bank: Digital Currencies may dominate by 2030
Many in the Blockchain and digital currency world predict that fiat currencies will be replaced by cryptocurrencies and digital...
Recent proposals on prudential treatment of crypto-assets
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision of the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) recently released a Consultative Document on...
Texan State Banks given the green light to custody digital assets
The Texas Department of Banking has released a notice that “Texas state-chartered banks may provide customers with virtual currency...
Banking for DeFi - the Swiss solution
Sygnum, which calls itself the worlds first digital asset bank, has launched a Swiss regulated decentralised finance (DeFi) offering....
Australian Senate Committee to tackle FinTech and Blockchain 'debanking'
The issue of 'debanking' has caused significant practical impediments for many companies, and individuals, wishing to expand in the...
Central Bank of Nigeria: banks should not engage with digital currencies
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has issued a notice to local banking institutions that it does not permit "dealing in cryptocurrencies...
Aussie press muses Bitcoin as a gold replacement...
With Bitcoin's meteoric price rise over Christmas and the New Year, today kicked off with two of Australia's more conservative media...
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