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November 29, 2022
India to Test Retail Version of Digital Rupee

India’s central bank will begin testing its proposed digital rupee for retail use this week. “The pilot will test the robustness of the entire process of digital rupee creation, distribution, and...


November 28, 2022
FTX Collapse Creates ‘Sense Of Urgency’ Among World’s Regulators

The new head of global securities regulator IOSCO said the collapse of the FTX exchange shows why the agency will focus on companies like it next year. Speaking to Reuters...


November 27, 2022
Turkey Investigates Sam Bankman-Fried, Seeks Seizure of ‘Suspicious’ FTX Assets

Add Turkey to the list of countries investigating Sam Bankman-Fried — or SBF — founder of the failed cryptocurrency platform FTX. PYMNTS reported earlier this month that authorities in Turkey...


November 27, 2022
Japan’s Top Utilities Face New Antitrust Fines

Japan’s trade watchdog is likely to impose a record amount of fines on several major utilities after finding they formed a cartel and obstructed the liberalization of the country’s electricity...


November 24, 2022
Mobile Operator Veon To Sell Russian Business For $2.2B

Amsterdam-listed mobile operator Veon said on Thursday it would sell its Russian business, Vimpelcom, to senior members of the Vimpelcom management team, led by CEO Aleksander Torbakhov, for 130 billion...


November 23, 2022
Report: Bank of Japan Set to Test CBDC

The Bank of Japan will reportedly join a host of other countries in testing a central bank digital currency (CBDC) next year in experiments with three of the country’s banks....


November 22, 2022
FTX’s First Day in Court: ‘Personal Fiefdom of Sam Bankman-Fried’

Almost a full two weeks after first filing for bankruptcy on Nov. 11, the insolvent cryptocurrency exchange FTX finally held its first-day motion requests on Tuesday (Nov. 22). The hearing...


November 21, 2022
Stellantis Buys AI Startup Supercharging Autonomous Driving Company

Stellantis has agreed to acquire aiMotive, a developer of advanced artificial intelligence and autonomous driving software. Financial details of the transactions were not disclosed. aiMotive is based in Budapest, Hungary,...


November 17, 2022
SBF’s ‘Big Dumb Game’ Leaves ‘Worse than Enron’ Cleanup For...

By most accounts, Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), the ex-CEO of what only weeks ago was the third largest crypto exchange in the world, has precipitated a moment in the cryptocurrency industry...


Real-Time Payments World Map
Mexico and Malaysia Poised for Massive Real-Time Payments Growth by 2026 As real-time payments continue to grow around the world, some countries are expected to see significant adoption by 2026. In this this edition of the “Real-Time Payments World Map,” a collaboration with The Clearing House, PYMNTS explores Italy, Kenya, Japan, Mexico and Malaysia, countries with very different projected growth.