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BitcoinBitcoin Daily: Cubans Use Cryptocurrencies For Remittances In Wake Of...
About 10,000 Cubans have turned to bitcoin and altcoins, including ethereum and dogecoin, to...
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CryptocurrencyThe Lures – And Challenges – Of Central Bank Digital...
Beyond bitcoin – that marquee name of crypto and its brethren, which have yet...
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Cross-border PaymentsCentral Bankers' Report: Cross Border Payments Are 'Slow, Expensive, Unreliable'
An international association for central banks has issued a report that “aims to make...
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BankingBIS To Open Four New Innovation Hubs Over Next Two...
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) Innovation Hub is planning on adding four new...
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Security & FraudBIS: Wirecard Debacle Could Trigger Revamp Of Payment Regs
The stunning demise of Germany’s Wirecard AG could lead to a revamp of some...
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CryptocurrencyPrivate/Public Partnerships Could Boost Central Bank Digital Currencies
The movement toward digital currencies may be a bit of an arms race of...
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Digital PaymentsTailwinds Gather For Digital Dollars, Digital Bank Accounts (At The...
The stimulus checks — some of them, anyway — are coming, via direct deposit,...
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Bank RegulationBIS Looks For ‘Prudential’ Crypto Rules
The Basel Committee has said in a paper that a “prudential” regulatory framework should...
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Security & FraudAvast Cybersecurity Firm Targeted By China Hack
Czech cybersecurity company Avast was hacked by an outside actor suspected to have ties...
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CryptocurrencyThe Central Bank Conundrum On Cryptos
For central banks, when it comes to cryptocurrencies, there’s no central theme. Whether the...
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EconomyBIS: Big Banks Lower-Risk, More Resilient Than Pre-Crisis
The Bank for International Settlements said the world’s biggest banks are actually more resilient...
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RegulationBIS Advocates Bank Oversight Of Blockchain
In finance, now comes automated, embedded supervision. Maybe. To that end, the Bank for...
