Latest Cryptocurrency News: Finextra Research

MPE 2024: What will be the impact of a digital euro?

At the Merchant Payments Ecosystem 2024 conference in Berlin, Evelien Witlox from the European Central Bank (ECB) presented a keynote on the possibilities of a digital euro.

13 March 2024

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Institutional players back digital asset clearing house ClearToken

ClearToken, a London-based clearing house for global digital assets, has secured a $10 million funding round with support from Laser Digital, the digital asset subsidiary of Nomura, several global liquidity providers including Flow Traders and GSR, and leading digital asset firms LMAX Digital and Zodia Custody.

13 March 2024

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Banco do Brasil selects G+D to test offline payments for CBDC

Banco do Brasil is to work with German firm Giesecke+Devrient (G+D) to test offline payments as part of pilot trials of its central banking digital currency, Drex.

12 March 2024

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Spain blocks Sam Altman's Worldcoin venture

Sam Altman’s cryptocurrency outfit Worldcoin has been told by Spain to stop collecting and using people's personal data.

08 March 2024

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US digital dollar is “nowhere near” development, says Federal Reserve chair

Chairman of the US Federal Reserve Jerome Powell spoke before the Senate on Thursday, stating that the US was “nowhere near” CBDC development.

08 March 2024

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HKMA to pilot CBDC sandbox for tokenised deposits

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) has kicked off a new wholesale central bank digital currency (wCBDC) project to render support to the development of the tokenisation market in the territory.

07 March 2024

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Revolut delivers fiat-to-crypto on-ramp to MetaMask wallets

Revolut has integrated with self-custodial wallet MetaMask, enabling users to replenish their holdings with crypto purchases from their Revolut accounts.

06 March 2024

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Deutsche Börse goes live with spot trading platform for crypto assets

Deutsche Börse has gone live with a regulated spot platform for institutional trading in crypto assets.

05 March 2024

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Gemini agrees to return $1.1bn to Earn customers

Gemini has agreed to return at least $1.1 billion to customers who lost money through the crypto firm's partnership with now-bankrupt Genesis.

29 February 2024

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Texas Blockchain Council challenges US DoE on bitcoin mining data

The Texas Blockchain Council (TBC), a non-profit industry association, has initiated legal action against the Energy Information Administration (EIA) over cryptocurrency mining data collection.

23 February 2024

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ECB officials liken crypto regulation to providing new clothes for a 'naked emperor'

Senior payments experts at the European Central Bank have billed the SEC's approval of spot exchange-traded funds (ETF) for bitcoin as an example of the 'naked emperors new clothes', legitimising a currency whose fair value as an asset is effectively zero.

22 February 2024

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Banks "barking up the wrong tree" over CBDC deposit flight says ECB

The European Central Bank says banks are "barking up the wrong tree" when they fret over the impact of deposit flight from a future digital euro, arguing instead that stablecoins and electronic money institutions pose more of a threat to the deposit base.

20 February 2024

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