The Arab Monetary Fund (AMF), a sub-organization of the Arab League, has named global payments network RippleNet as a possible alternative to central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). In a new report, ...
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The Ugly Truth About Trump Media Acquirer Digital World’s Shares
The SPAC that’s acquiring former President Donald Trump’s media company is facing a daunting list of negatives as it moves towards closing the transaction. Real Money Columnist Brad Ginesin outlined t...
Idea to Use Digital Ruble as Reserve Currency Circulated in Sanctioned Russia – Finance Bitcoin News
A call to make the digital ruble a reserve currency has been issued in the State Duma, the lower house of Russia’s parliament. Meanwhile, concerns have been raised in the West that the new incarnation...
Digital Afterlife And Class Divide
Zainab Johnson, Allegra Edwards, Robbie Amell, and Andy Allo. (Photo credit: Gregg … [+] DeGuire/WireImage) WireImage Amazon Studio’s Season 2 of the sci-fi comedy series Upload has been t...
Can digital assets become part of Americans’ retirement plans?
On March 11, the United States Department of Labor warned employers that sponsor 401(k) retirement plans to “exercise extreme care” when dealing with cryptocurrencies and other digital assets, even th...
European ‘MiCA’ regulation on digital assets: Where do we stand?
The proposed European Union Regulation on Markets in Crypto Assets, or MiCA, (hereinafter the “regulation”) was put to a vote in the European Union Parliament’s Committee on Economic and Monetary Affa...
Russian banks are so broke the biggest lender just got the go-ahead to issue digital assets like crypto
The impact of sanctions and the collapse of the Russian ruble after the invasion of Ukraine has some Russian banks turning to the crypto market for a boost. Like the biggest one. That is Sberbank, Rus...
Russia’s Central Bank Grants License to Sberbank to Issue Digital Assets
Russia’s central bank granted the country’s biggest lender Sberbank a license to begin issuing digital assets. Sberbank, the country’s largest retail bank applied for a license back in January with Ru...
Bank of Russia Allows Sberbank to Issue Digital Financial Assets – Finance Bitcoin News
Sberbank, Russia’s largest bank, has been authorized by the country’s monetary policy regulator to issue digital financial assets. The move comes amid tightening Western sanctions over the war in Ukra...
Russia’s Largest Lender Sberbank Secures License to Issue, Exchange Digital Assets
Russia’s central bank granted the country’s largest lender Sberbank a license to issue and exchange digital assets. The latest move opens new avenues for the nation’s economy hammered by western sanct...
COVID restrictions stymie digital yuan rollout at Beijing Winter Olympics
Athletes and support staff at the Beijing Olympics have the option of using digital currency for payments Limiting the number of spectators may result in fewer people testing the digital yuan as a met...
Cookin’ Burger! Digital Entertainment Asset Reveals Its First Third-Party Game Title
Singapore-based digital entertainment and blockchain game company Digital Entertainment Asset (DEA) revealed on Mar.18 the release of the fourth blockchain game title – Cookin’ Burger. The game will m...
Qatar exploring digital banks and central bank digital currencies
The Qatar Central Bank (QCB) is reportedly investigating the possibility of launching a digital currency and issuing digital bank licenses. According to the head of the fintech section at QCB, Alanoo...
Russia’s largest bank gets license to issue digital assets
Russia’s top lender Sberbank has received regulatory approval from the country’s central bank to start issuing digital finance assets (DFAs). The license, which adds Sberbank to the list of financial ...
U.S. Should Align Itself with Digital Assets to Safeguard its Interests, Says Chainalysis Founder
During a Senate hearing, Chainalysis founder Jonathan Levin opined that the U.S. ought to prioritize and invest in digital assets to get the upper hand when enhancing financial transparency, public sa...
Amid Sanctions, Russia’s Sberbank Secures License to Issue Digital Assets
A day after Ukraine legalized the use of digital assets in the country, Russia’s largest lender Sberbank secures the license to issue digital assets in the country. On Thursday, March 17, the Russian ...
Biden’s Crypto Order Puts the U.S. at the front of the Digital Revolution
Biden’s Order: The U.S. government has demonstrated that crypto is part of the economy and that Americans want to be part of this digital revolution, says Raymond Hsu, CEO and co-founder of Cabital. U...
Central Bank of Russia issues digital asset license to Sberbank in apparent policy reversal
Less than two weeks after the Central Bank of Russia, or CBR, reiterated its position proposing to ban the issuance, mining and circulation of cryptocurrencies in Russia, it appears to have reevaluate...
Here’s What Unique In The Recent S&P 500 And Bitcoin ETF, Filed By A New Digital Asset Manager
A new digital asset manager files for an ETF that aims at the S&P 500 Index exposure and also offers limited access to Bitcoin for the first time. Michael Willis, hired for the ETF’s portfolio ma...
Russia’s largest bank to issue digital financial assets following approval
advertisement Russia’s largest bank, Sberbank, will soon start issuing and exchanging digital financial assets (DFA). The bank announced on Thursday that companies will be able to make transactions on...
Joe Biden launches executive order favoring digital assets
TL;DR Breakdown • US President sees potential in the cryptocurrency industry• Digital Assets could be regulated in North America, and the country would launch its own CBDC In previous days, the presid...
Sberbank Gets License From Russian Central Bank to Issue, Exchange Digital Assets
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How Hoops Association proves that having “game” in the NFT space means more than just digital utility.
Nowadays, if you haven’t at least heard of NFTs, well…you most likely are living under a rock. But with so many NFT projects focused on sports, what differentiates one project from another? Hoops Asso...
BAT Price Prediction: Boosting Digital Ads
Basic Attention Token (BAT) is one of the cryptocurrencies taking the crypto space by surprise. This project is set to make massive improvements in the digital advertising space and related fields. Th...
Former SEC Advisory Committee Member Condemns SEC Chair’s “Abuse of Digital Assets”
Tobias Lewis Associate professor of blockchain law labeled the SEC’s crypto regulation an “abuse of digital assets” A former SEC Advisory Committee member has called current SEC regu...
Edward Snowden Slams Central Bank Digital Currencies: ‘The Risk Is Very Easy to Illustrate’
Edward Snowden again weighed in on the rise of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) when he spoke at Camp Ethereal 2022 last week, expounding on why these new assets are problematic. In an intervi...
China’s Digital Yuan Could Challenge the USD’s Dominance, CNBC Expert Says
Richard Turrin – Financial Technology Consultant at CNBC – argued that the Chinese central bank digital currency could challenge the dominance of the American dollar this decade. Specifically, he beli...