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Kenyan Capital Markets Regulator Wants Better Coordination With Other Bodies When Testing Crypto Assets

7.5.2021
Kenya’s Capital Markets Authority (CMA) says the country needs a more encompassing approach that enables it to leverage other regulators’ expertise when testing crypto assets. Kenyan Crypto Interest Also, the Kenyan body, which favours a joint financial sector regulatory sandbox, says...

Bank of England governor issues crypto investment warning

7.5.2021
England’s central bank warns crypto investors to be wary of the risks associated with buying cryptocurrencies

Electronic Transactions Association Proposes 7 Guiding Principles for a Digital Dollar

7.5.2021
The Electronic Transactions Association (ETA) has put forward a set of guiding principles to be considered in the creation of a U.S. central bank digital currency (CBDC), also referred to as digital dollar. The organization, which unites hundreds of companies in the payments industry, confirms...

Fintechs Invited to Work on Georgia’s Central Bank Digital Currency

7.5.2021
National Bank of Georgia (NBG) has issued a call for companies in the fintech sector, financial institutions and technology firms to support its efforts to create a digital currency. Georgia’s central bank wants to employ new technologies to raise the efficiency of the country’s payment...

Goldman Sachs Launches Bitcoin Derivatives Trading as ‘Institutional Demand Continues to Grow Significantly’

6.5.2021
Investment bank Goldman Sachs has reportedly begun offering a bitcoin investment product to clients. The firm has opened up trading with non-deliverable forwards, a bitcoin derivatives product. To hedge against the cryptocurrency’s volatility, Goldman Sachs will trade bitcoin futures on...

Federal Reserve Bank Paper: DeFi May Cause a Paradigm Shift

6.5.2021
The world is moving towards complete digitization, and measures like DeFi and cryptocurrencies play a big part in it. Ethereum is major crypto, and even the Federal Reserve Bank proved it as well. The institution recently released a paper stating how Ethereum will help the DeFi sector...

Kazakhstan opens public consultation for central bank digital currency

6.5.2021
The potential national digital currency in Kazakhstan is not intended to replace either cash or cashless payments, the central bank stressed

Swiss SEBA Bank Dives Into Defi Expanding Its Offering With 3 Tokens

6.5.2021
Switzerland-based crypto bank SEBA is adding support for three defi tokens, bringing the number of cryptocurrencies available on its platform to a total of nine. SEBA clients are able to buy, store and trade with fiat any of these cryptos. SEBA Bank Supports the Coins of 3 Defi Protocols With...

Georgia's central bank is exploring 'Digital Gel' CBDC

5.5.2021
The Republic of Georgia's central bank has invited fintech firms and others to participate in the CBDC project

JPMorgan Boss Jamie Dimon Says ‘I Don’t Care About Bitcoin’ but Clients Are Interested

5.5.2021
JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon has reaffirmed his stance on bitcoin while acknowledging that his bank’s clients are interested in the cryptocurrency. “I don’t tell clients what to do,” he said while emphasizing that he does not care about bitcoin. Jamie Dimon Has No Interest...

Hundreds of Banks in US to Allow Customers to Buy, Sell, Hold Bitcoin Through Existing Bank Accounts

5.5.2021
Hundreds of banks in the U.S. will reportedly start offering access to bitcoin to their customers this year, thanks to a partnership between Fidelity National Information Services and the New York Digital Investment Group. Hundreds of banks have enrolled to participate in the program as they...

Bahamas central bank prepares national Sand Dollar push this summer

5.5.2021
The Bahamas is beginning a push for national digital currency adoption this summer, the central bank's governor John Rolle said

Nigeria’s Cryptocurrency Traded Volumes on P2P Platform Top $1.5 Billion

5.5.2021
According to Paxful, a peer-to-peer trading platform, Nigeria’s cryptocurrency traded volumes on the platform topped $1.5 billion in the first four months of the year 2021. This figure represents almost a third of Paxful’s global total volume of $5 billion. This latest traded volume...

‘DeFi may lead to a paradigm shift’ says Federal Reserve Bank paper

5.5.2021
Ethereum has unleashed a wave of financial innovation

Southeast Asia’s Largest Bank DBS Says Trading Volumes on Its Cryptocurrency Exchange Have Increased 10 Times

5.5.2021
DBS, Southeast Asia’s largest bank, says that cryptocurrency trading volumes on its exchange have grown 10 times to around $30 million to $40 million. The bank is also collaborating with JPMorgan on a blockchain settlement platform and plans to launch its first security token offering in...

Digital Yuan Launch Draws Near: JD.com Employees Paid in e-CNY, Tencent, Ant, Mastercard Engage With PBoC

4.5.2021
China, the world’s most populous country, has jumped leaps and bounds in comparison to a great number of other countries when it comes to the creation of a central bank digital currency. As each day passes, China’s digital yuan is seemingly getting closer to large-scale adoption,...

ECB Deepens Analysis of Digital Euro, Decision Expected by Mid-Year, VP Confirms

4.5.2021
Faced with challenges on many fronts, the European Central Bank is now deepening the analysis of how to digitalize its currency. A decision on whether to issue a digital euro, which has the potential to become a major CBDC, is expected around mid-2021, a high-ranking official of the central bank...