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Australian banks and fintechs to test use cases for CBDC

The Reserve Bank of Australia is kicking of 14 pilot projects to investigate potential use cases for a central bank digital currency.

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Bank of England says digital pound "more likely than not"

Bank of England deputy governor Jon Cunlifffe has told a committee of MPs that a digital pound has a better than 50/50 chance of coming to fruition.

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Coinbase suspends Binance stablecoin

Coinbase is delisting the Binance USD (BUSD) stablecoin, saying that the rival exchange's offering does not meet internal listing standards.

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CBDC in the Nordics: What is the status in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland and Iceland?

Ahead of NextGen Nordics, which will return to Stockholm on 25 April 2023, Finextra will be publishing a series of ‘sneak peeks’, covering the topics and interviewing the panellists speaking at the event.

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Ingenico and Binance team on in-store crypto payment acceptance

POS terminal manufacturer Ingenico has teamed up with Binance to pilot in-store cryptocurrency payment acceptance.

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Bankman-Fried faces new criminal charges

Sam Bankman-Fried has been hit with four new criminal charges accusing the FTX cryptocurrency exchange founder of conspiring to commit bank fraud and to make unlawful political contributions.

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Crypto trade group criticises SEC insider trading case

A US-based trade association representing crypto firms has called for the dismissal of an insider trading case brought by the Securities and Exchanges Commission (SEC) arguing that the regulator has unfairly labelled crypto assets as securities.

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BIS chief floats unified programmable ledger to turbocharge payments innovation

A unified programmable ledger could unleash an explosion of innovation in payments and money comparable to the arrival of the smartphone, according to Bank for International Settlements general manager Agustín Carstens.

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Mastercard partners Immersve on Web3 crypto payments

Mastercard has teamed up with Web3 outfit Immersve to let people in Australia and New Zealand use cryptocurrency directly from their Web3 wallet to make digital, physical and metaverse purchases wherever Mastercard is accepted.

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EToro scores New York BitLicense

Social investing platform eToro has secured money transmitter and virtual currency licenses from the New York State Department of Financial Services.

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BIS Nordics invites vendors to submit tech for offline CBDCs

The Nordic arm of the Bank for International Settlements innovation hub, is inviting technology suppliers to submit ideas for implementing offline functionality in a future central bank digitial currency.

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Bank of Japan kicks off CBDC pilot

Following a two-year investigation phase, the Bank of Japan is kicking off pilot trials of a digital yen.