Image by Ledger Insights This coming Monday’s Eurogroup meeting will include a discussion about tokenization, DLT and central bank money for wholesale settlement, as well as the status of the retail digital euro. The Eurogroup is an informal body of economic and finance ministers that meet to discuss issues relating to the euro currency. Mr …
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Image by Ledger Insights In September the Korean press reported that the central bank was preparing for a tokenized deposit trial targeting around 100,000 people. It follows the Bank of Korea announcing formal plans for such a trial a year ago, in combination with a wholesale central bank digital currency (wCBDC) for interbank settlement. Yesterday …
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Image by Ledger Insights After the U.S. government blocked Google from working with Chinese technology firm Huawei, it developed its own operating system, Harmony OS, which drops compatibility with Google’s Android. It previously announced plans to integrate with the digital yuan, but now it has done it, incorporating the central bank digital currency (CBDC) at …
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金管局總裁余偉文公布下一階段金融科技發展藍圖「金融科技2030」，核心包括四大策略，包括數據、人工智能、韌性和代幣化（DART），共有40個項目和措施。 余偉文指出，代幣化是為重要創新渠道，重塑市場基建、推出創新服務和降低成本。金管局去年推出批發央行數碼貨幣項目Emsemble，現時已試行20多個項目，預期以央行數碼貨幣結算的代幣化貨幣市場基金，最快可以推出市場，最快可在今年內推出。 余偉文指，現時市場已有代幣化市場貨幣基金，今次當局希望達成清算、結算一條龍，以銀行的代幣化存款進行買賣支付結算，央行數碼貨幣為銀行之間代幣化存款結算，不論在資產、銀行結算和央行結算層面皆以區塊鏈技術進行代幣化快速結算。 余偉文表示，較快可推出的項目亦包括在貿易融資過程盡量代幣化，降低成本讓更多中小企經平台取得企業融資，因貿易融貿跨境進行，當局已經與巴西、泰國央行進行跨境使用場景，希望不久可公布初步項目觀察，另外代幣化平台為企業進行流動性管理、綠色金融碳權加快發展，亦是較快可推出的項目。 冀建立安全高效數據生態 對於其餘三項策略，余偉文表示當局希望建立一個安全高效的數據生態、順暢無阻流轉，人工智能驅動創新、推出個人化服務，讓各行業享用智慧金融，韌性則提供安全網，除了網絡攻擊亦要能抵禦新風險，如量子計算等，確保香港金融基建設施穩健。 原文網址: 金融科技｜余偉文料CBDC結算代幣化貨幣市場基金 最快年內推出 | 香港01 资訊來源: https://www.hk01.com/article/60290947?utm_source=01articlecopy&utm_medium=referral
Image by Ledger Insights The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has been involved with the mBridge cross border CBDC payment system for four years. Today the General Manager of the BIS, Agustín Carstens, said the project has been handed over to the central banks. They are the central banks of China, Hong Kong, Saudi Arabia, …
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Today Japan’s Soramitsu announced a strategic partnership with the Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research (NISER), a government funded research body and think tank. The collaboration is for blockchain technology research and to develop skills and applications in Nigeria. Soramitsu is best known as the developer of Bakong, Cambodia’s very successful digital currency payment …
Image by Ledger Insights On Friday the European Central Bank launched a consultation on extending the hours of T2, its main real time gross settlement (RTGS) system. DLT payments and the digital euro are one of the considerations, although not the primary driver of the plans. T2 already operates 22.5 hours a day, but consumer …
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Image by Ledger Insights Today the Reserve Bank of Australia and the Australian Treasury published a report on work done so far on central bank digital currency (CBDC). As stated previously, they see no immediate need for a retail CBDC, despite the Australian cash transactions (13%) as a proportion of retail payments nearing Scandinavian levels. …
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Image by The Crypto Times Mastercard (MA) has integrated its blockchain-based Multi-Token Network (MTN) with JPMorgan’s (JPM) newly rebranded digital assets platform, Kinexys (formerly JPM Coin), to improve business-to-business (B2B) cross-border payments. The collaboration aims to deliver greater transparency, faster settlements, and reduced time zone-related delays. Mastercard launched the MTN in mid-2023 as a platform …
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Image by Ledger Insights Today Japan’s Soramitsu announced a strategic partnership with the Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research (NISER), a government funded research body and think tank. The collaboration is for blockchain technology research and to develop skills and applications in Nigeria. Soramitsu is best known as the developer of Bakong, Cambodia’s very …
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