Article by Steve Kaaru
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18 November, 2024
OneCoin’s ‘Cryptoqueen’ alive and in South Africa: report
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French bank settles $108m digital bond with wholesale CBDC
The digitally native notes leveraged Euroclear's D-FMI for the tokenization aspects and Banque de France's pilot wholesale CBDC for the...
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Pakistan warms up to digital assets with new bill
The new State Bank of Pakistan Act allows the top bank to issue a CBDC and legalizes digital currencies, but...
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Singapore: SBI, UBS issue tokenized funds under Project Guardian
SBI’s pilot issues tokenized asset-backed securities and extends the service to secondary trading while partnering with UBS to tokenize a...
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14 November, 2024
UBS pilots Digital Cash for cross-border payments
The pilot participants conducted local transactions in Swiss francs and global transfers in USD, euros, and yuan for faster and...
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14 November, 2024
Ant International, Standard Chartered lay out blockchain pilot
Standard Chartered completed Singaporean dollar-denominated liquidity transfers between its entities across borders on Ant International’s Whale blockchain platform
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