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Swiss National Bank Trials CBDC in Transactions With Five Banks

The Swiss National Bank has successfully employed a wholesale CBDC to settle transactions with five commercial banks, the monetary authority announced. The tests are part of an experiment carried out together with the Bank for International Settlements and Switzerland’s financial services provider SIX. Swiss Central Bank Tests Integration of Wholesale CBDC Settlement With Private Banks […]

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Europe’s Securities Watchdog Seeks Feedback on Regulations Ahead of DLT Pilot

Europe’s Securities Regulator Seeks Feedback on Regulations Ahead of DLT Pilot

ESMA, the European Securities and Markets Authority, has set out to establish if EU authorities need to amend existing regulations in order to facilitate the trading and settlement of tokenized securities. The regulator is now seeking opinions on the matter ahead of launching a pilot regime for market infrastructures based on distributed ledger technology (DLT). […]

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From DeFi year to decade: Is mass adoption here? Experts Answer, Part 3

Decentralized technologies’ insiders shared their views on DeFi and the role, achievements and challenges the space faced in 2021.

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SWIFT Aims to Test Tokenization in 2022, Clearstream, Northern Trust, SETL to Participate

SWIFT, the Belgian-based cooperative that serves as an intermediary and settlement executor of financial transactions between banks worldwide is planning to experiment with asset tokenization in 2022. In a blog post about the subject, SWIFT notes that it will be working with firms like Clearstream, Northern Trust, and SETL to explore “the feasibility and benefits” […]

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From DeFi year to decade: Is mass adoption here? Experts Answer, Part 2

Decentralized technologies’ insiders shared their views on DeFi and on the role, achievements and challenges the space faced in 2021.

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From DeFi year to decade: Is mass adoption here? Experts Answer, Part 1

Decentralized technologies’ insiders shared their views on DeFi and on the role, achievements and challenges the space faced in 2021.

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Australian Reserve Bank’s ‘Project Atom’ CBDC research finds numerous benefits

Following Treasurer Josh Frydenberg’s “payments and crypto reform plan,” the RBA has published a report exploring DLT tech and wholesale CBDC issuance.

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EU central banks work on DLT-based asset settlement

Banca d’Italia and Deutsche Bundesbank shared experiences on distributed ledger technology-based settlements in a workshop.

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Successful smart cities will be impossible without decentralized techs

Blockchain technology promises to be the foundational network layer for many systems underpinning successful smart cities.

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‘Faster and Cheaper Cross-Border Transfers’ — Banking Report Led by BIS Highlights the Benefits of Cryptocurrency

According to a report published by the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) and a group of central banks, digital currencies can lead to faster settlement and cheaper transfers. Moreover, the banking group leveraged a prototype that shows how money transfers can be done in seconds with very little processing fees. Inexpensive Transfers & Speed: Bank […]

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