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“# Netherlands registers first consumer-facing crypto platform since AMLD5 ” Crypto exchange BLOX received the go-ahead to operate in the Netherlands, making it the first platform to do so since the country implemented the European Union’s 5th Anti-Money Laundering Directive, or AMLD5. “BLOX is the first consumer-focused cryptocurrency company that will be included in the…
“# Only 4% of Norway uses cash as country evaluates CBDC, Norges Bank exec says ” Speaking at an event on Thursday, Ida Wolden Bache, deputy governor at Norway’s central bank, described a decline in cash payments while elaborating on Central Bank Digital Currencies, or CBDCs. “Only 4% of payments are now made using cash,”…
“# Russia’s central bank says the pandemic has accelerated regulators’ interest in CBDCs ” The COVID-19 pandemic has served both as an x-ray onto existing vulnerabilities in the global financial system, and as an accelerator for destabilizing tendencies, including higher sovereign and consumer debt in emerging markets. At an online meeting of the Central Bank…
“# Fed calling for more stimulus is ‘code for buy Bitcoin,’ says Winklevoss ” The United States Federal Reserve is still unintentionally advertising Bitcoin, as Chair Jerome Powell argues for more money printing. In a tweet on Nov. 6, Tyler Winklevoss, co-founder of exchange Gemini, said that Powell’s latest speech this week was “code for…
“# Economy minister says Brazil will have its own CBDC ” Brazilian Economy Minister Paulo Guedes has said that Brazil will issue its own central bank digital currency, or CBDC. Guedes made the statement on Thursday during a ceremony celebrating the number of 100 millionth digital savings account opened at Caixa Econômica Federal: “Now that…
“# China’s digital yuan is ‘a long way’ from beating USD says financial firm exec ” David Roche, president and global strategist at Independent Strategy, believes that China’s digital yuan has “a long way” before it will become able to challenge the U.S. dollar as a reserve currency, CNDC reports Nov. 2. According to Roche,…
“# PayPal crypto services to go global early 2021, support for CBDCs coming ” Senior executives at global payments giant PayPal have revealed further details about its plans to aggressively push into the crypto sector next year during the firm’s Q3 2020 earnings call, including plans to support central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). “Clearly the…
“# China’s digital yuan pilots have processed $300M so far, says PBoC head ” The governor of China’s central bank has given more details about the country’s ongoing digital currency pilot. Yi Gang, governor of the People’s Bank of China, said that the digital yuan pilots have processed over four million transactions to date, totaling…
“# Reserve Bank of Australia forms partnerships to research CBDC ” According to a Nov. 2 announcement from The Reserve Bank of Australia, or RBA, the financial institution will be partnering with the Commonwealth Bank, National Australia Bank, the financial services company Perpetual, and software company ConsenSys on a project to explore the potential use…
“# Germany’s central bank is working on a blockchain project, but it’s not a CBDC ” According to a public notice published in the Supplement to the Official Journal of the European Union, Ocean Protocol, a Singaporean non-profit foundation, was hired to create a decentralized network for Germany’s Bundesbank. The central bank said that the…