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BIS Project Agora selects 41 firms to tokenize deposits
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20 September, 2024

BIS Project Agora selects 41 firms to tokenize deposits

The 41 include Visa, Swift, Citi, JPMorgan, UBS, and Mastercard; meanwhile, the Qatar Financial Centre has selected 24 participants for...
BRICS payment platforms gaining traction: Sergey Lavrov
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19 September, 2024

BRICS payment platforms gaining traction: Sergey Lavrov

BRICS members are increasingly turning to BRICS Pay, BRICS Bridge and bilateral payment platforms to reduce the influence of the...
India BaaS blockchain focuses on ‘trust and transparency’
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18 September, 2024

India BaaS blockchain focuses on ‘trust and transparency’

India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has also unveiled a national blockchain framework to enable citizens to create trusted...
Indonesia issues third exchange license
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18 September, 2024

Indonesia issues third exchange license

Indonesia’s financial market watchdog has issued a new exchange license to Tokocrypto amid claims that the licensing favors a few

Latvia to offer pre-licensing consultations to VASPs
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16 September, 2024

Latvia to offer pre-licensing consultations to VASPs

With MiCA taking effect in December, Latvia’s central bank is offering free pre-licensing consultation to VASPs seeking to apply for...
Digital asset micropayments unlock AI autonomy: Bernstein
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13 September, 2024

Digital asset micropayments unlock AI autonomy: Bernstein

The legacy financial system is limiting AI as it doesn’t enable micropayments, programmability or non-human entity involvement, according to Bernstein...

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