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“# Amid inflation woes, Turkey announces CBDC tests planned for 2021 ” As the country struggles with soaring consumer prices and an inflation rate in the double digits, in an announcement to members of Turkey’s Parliament central bank governor Naci Agbal revealed that “conceptual” research had been completed on a Turkish central bank digital currency…
“# Russia’s central bank digital currency: Prospects and problems ” Active digitalization of large domestic financial institutions is a noticeable, definitely positive trend. Russia is one of the five world leaders in the speed of transition to cashless payments, and the number of contactless transfers and payments are increasing every year. Such active development requires…
“# Bitcoin’s 2020 explosion is not the 2017 bubble again ” Bitcoin’s (BTC) recent volatile price corrections might conjure up images of the 2017 crash in your mind, or maybe even the crash caused by COVID-19 back in March of this year. But the fact that Bitcoin has reached $20,000 for the first time in…
“# China has no plan to replace USD with digital yuan, former PBoC head says ” The Chinese government is not seeking to replace existing fiat currencies with its own digital currency, according to a former governor of the People’s Bank of China, or PBoC. Zhou Xiaochuan, the president of the Chinese Finance Association and…
“# Chinese residents make 20K transactions in digital yuan trial event ” People in China have conducted roughly 20,000 transactions through e-commerce company JD.com in a trial of the country’s digital yuan. According to local media outlet Global Times, JD.com reported that 80% of participants born in the 1980s and 1990s used the platform to…
“# Sweden is studying a potential transition to the e-krona CBDC ” The Swedish government is progressing with its central bank digital currency, or CBDC, by launching a formal review of a potential transition to the digital currency. According to a Bloomberg report published Friday, the review will explore the feasibility of moving the country’s payments…
“# Vitalik Buterin expects lots of ways to exchange CBDCs for crypto ” Central bank digital currencies, or CBDCs, will be fairly easy to convert into cryptocurrencies in the future, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin believes. Speaking at the Singapore Fintech Festival 2020 on Dec. 9, Buterin said that he expects a lot of ways to…
“# Hundreds of millions of consumers will use digital currencies soon: Circle CEO ” Speaking at Singapore Fintech Festival, Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire said that “third-generation blockchain technology” would see digital currency “in the hands of hundreds of millions, if not billions of users.” Allaire featured on a panel alongside the CEO of Facebook’s ‘Diem’…
“# JPMorgan exec: Softer stance on Bitcoin but we’ve always been pro-blockchain ” Contrary to public perception, JPMorgan Chase has always been pro-blockchain, says the multinational investment bank’s head of wholesale payments, Takis Georgakopoulos. In a live discussion with Nasdaq reporter Jill Malandrino at this year’s Blockshow in Singapore, Georgakopoulos said JPMorgan has always viewed…
“# Future of money will be public-private effort, says ex-CFTC chairman ” The public and private sectors should work closely together to bring about the future of money, according to a former leader of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Chris Giancarlo, a former CFTC chairman and initiator of a blockchain-based digital dollar project, joined the…