Today the London Stock Exchange Group’s (LSEG) LCH SA announced it received regulatory approval to provide clearing...
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Clearstream to trial wholesale CBDC, trigger payments in ECB DLT tests
Last week the European Central Bank (ECB) announced the first set of participants for its wholesale DLT settlement trials using real...
LBBW, DekaBank partner SWIAT for ECB wholesale DLT settlement pilot
Last week the European Central Bank (ECB) announced the first participants in its wholesale DLT trials using central...
Zimbabwe switches to gold-backed ZiG currency, inspired by digital token
Last year Zimbabwe issued gold backed digital tokens, ZiG, and subsequently allowed them to be used as the official means of...
India’s CBDC wallet expanded to non-banks as volumes slow
India’s digital rupee wallet providers will be expanded from banks to non-bank payment operators. During a monetary...
PayPal’s PYUSD stablecoin now supports cross border payments
Yesterday PayPal announced the integration of its PYUSD stablecoin with its Xoom cross border payment app. U.S...
Why Ripple’s stablecoin launch makes sense
Yesterday, Ripple announced it plans to launch a US dollar stablecoin on the XRP Ledger and Ethereum blockchain. It...
Sony Bank trials stablecoins on Polygon blockchain
Sony Bank has started experimenting with issuing a stablecoin linked to currencies, including the yen. According to the...
StanChart’s Zodia Custody partners Deutsche Bank’s DWS for crypto ETP custody
Today Deutsche Bank asset manager DWS (AUM EUR 896 billion) launched its first Xtracker branded crypto exchange traded...
ESMA explains why DLT Pilot Regime hasn’t taken off
The European Union’s DLT Pilot Regime came into force last March. However, a year later, no infrastructures were...