The Reserve Bank of India has issued a concept note on Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) with the instructions to launch its pilot project of the e-rupee. This is being done to generate a general p...
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SWIFT Completes Blockchain-Based Tokenization Pilot With SETL & Others – crypto.news
SWIFT has announced the successful completion of the digital asset tokenization pilot it began late last year in collaboration with SETL, Northern Trust, and ClearStream. The project aims to foster in...
BIS get Green-Sign in Multi-CBDC X-Border Payment Pilot Project
BIS announced that a multi-jurisdiction CBDC pilot spearheaded by BIS Innovation Hub completed successfully. The project recorded 164 transactions that were worth nearly $22 million in real-value X-bo...
BIS Proclaims Success in Multi-CBDC Cross-Border Payment Pilot Project BIS Proclaims Success in Multi-CBDC Cross-Border Payment Pilot Project
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) on Tuesday announced that a multi-jurisdiction CBDC pilot spearheaded by BIS Innovation Hub has been successful. The project saw 164 transactions worth nea...
Telefónica Invests in Crypto Exchange, Launches Payments Pilot
Spain’s largest telecom company Telefónica has led a key investment round in the country’s largest crypto exchange Bit2Me. Local reports indicate that the investment was for $29 million. Bit2Me ...
Bank of International Settlements: ‘CBDC pilot successful’; $22 million transacted across 4 jurisdictions
CBDC pilot involving China, Hong Kong, Thailand, and the UAE successful 20 commercial banks, $22 million dollars worth of transactions CBDC adoption is being considered by the majority of central bank...
BIS concludes CBDC pilot with cross-border payments totalling $22M transacted
A pilot project involving four Asian central bank digital currencies (CBDC) involving real-value transactions was completed on Sept. 23, according to a LinkedIn post by Bank for International Settleme...
EU securities regulator clears next step for tokenized trading pilot program
The European Securities and Markets Agency (ESMA), a European supervisory authority, stated that it will not need to adjust regulatory standards for a pilot trading project using distributed ledger te...
Australian Central Bank Details Active CBDC Pilot Project In Telling Whitepaper
Australians are already testing a CBDC. Surprising no one, considering the authoritarian way that the government handled the lockdowns. The jury is still out on Central Bank Digital Currencies, while ...
Australia Pushes Ahead With Central Bank Digital Currency, Announces Pilot Timeline
Australia is pushing ahead with central bank digital (CBDC) currency research. On Monday, Australia’s central bank said in a whitepaper that the country’s CBDC pilot should be completed by mid-2023. ...
Australia CBDC pilot calls for submissions on potential use cases
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) and the Digital Finance Cooperative Research Centre (DFCRC) are looking for industry participants to make submissions on central bank digital currency (CBDC) use ca...
Australian CBDC Pilot Test to Commence Next Year – RBA
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has published a Whitepaper to give additional insights into its proposed Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), dubbed the eAUD. In its concerted efforts to explore...
Australian pilot CBDC test for eAUD to commence mid-2023: RBA White Paper
Making it to the list of countries that intend to launch an in-house central bank digital currency (CBDC), the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) released a white paper outlining an elaborate plan for co...
Iran Commences CBDC Pilot Dubbed ‘Crypto Rial’
14 seconds ago | 2 mins read Altcoin News The digital money issued by the Central Bank of Iran is termed “crypto rial”. Officials have also begun issuing crypto mining licenses. On Wednesday, the CBI ...
Iran Begins Central Bank Digital Currency ‘Crypto Rial’ Pilot Today – Featured Bitcoin News
The Central Bank of Iran (CBI) has reportedly begun a pilot for its central bank digital currency (CBDC), also known as “crypto rial.” Iran’s chamber of commerce explained that the “crypto rial has be...
Shiba Inu Prepares NFT Crypto Game Shiba Eternity’s Last Pilot Test in Australia
Shytoshi Kusama, the main developer of Shiba Inu announced that its project’s new game Shiba Eternity is now available for testing by Australian users. The company, however, said that Australia would ...
SWIFT Partners up With Symbiont to Pilot Corporate Data Blockchain Project – crypto.news
SWIFT, the global messaging system used by financial institutions, announced a collaboration with fintech company Symbiont to deliver more accurate data to financial companies via blockchain technolog...
SWIFT’s New Blockchain Pilot Project Aims to Drive Efficiency Around Corporate Events
Leading secure financial messaging system SWIFT is testing out blockchain in a pilot project with fintech company Symbiont Inc. Previously, SWIFT explored ways how to enter the central bank digital cu...
The U.S. has a pilot shortage — here’s how airlines are trying to fix it
U.S. airlines are facing a severe pilot shortage. Management consulting firm Oliver Wyman estimates the industry is facing a deficit of about 8,000 pilots, or 11% of the total workforce, and says the ...
American Airlines Looks Toward Pilot Contract After ‘Solid’ Labor Day Weekend
Labor Day weekend travelers make their way through American’s Miami hub on Saturday Sept. 3. (Photo … [+] by Joe Raedle) Getty Images Upbeat American Airlines CEO Robert Isom took a victor...
Pilot Who Threatened Mississippi Walmart Reportedly Lands Plane In Field
Topline A pilot who threatened to crash a plane into a Tupelo, Mississippi, Walmart on Saturday morning has landed his plane in a field in a rural area following hours of erratic flying, according to ...
Pilot Threatening To Crash Plane Into Mississippi Walmart—Store Evacuated, Police Say
Topline A Walmart in Tupelo, Mississippi, has been evacuated after a pilot threatened to crash an airplane into the store, according to police. This photo taken on August 27, 2018 shows a Beechcraft 2...
Nifty Gateway Wants NFT Curators to Sell Art with ‘Publishers’ Pilot
Nifty Gateway’s new Shopify-like pilot enables curated digital art storefronts “The best way to help artists is to have more curators,” co-founder Duncan Cock Foster told Blockworks As NFT trade volum...
Yes, A Pilot Shortage Is Real — What Airlines Can Do While Raising Pay
Widening the recruitment net is just one thing airlines can do proactively to address the current … [+] pilot shortage. getty ALPA, the largest airline union, says there is no pilot shortage. Ac...
Autonomous delivery company Gatik wins new pilot program with Pitney Bowes in Dallas
Gatik’s class 6 box truck is deployed for Pitney Bowes Source: Gatik Logistics company Pitney Bowes will begin testing automated short-haul delivery trucks from startup Gatik under a new pilot p...
Web3 Foundation Launches Decentralized News Monetization Pilot Project
Polkadot blockchain developer Web3 Foundation has announced it’s backing a new initiative that aims to modernize digital news contentcreation, distribution, and monetization As part of the pilot proj...
China commences the second phase of the pilot program for e-CNY
China has made yet another giant stride toward the virtual payment space. Emerging reports from local media reveal that the country has begun the second phase of the pilot program for its Central Bank...
UK Group to Run Pilot Retail CBDC, Providing Data to Bank of England
A UK-based cross-industry group known as the Digital FMI Consortium – Digital Financial Market Infrastructure (DFMI) – was launched on Wednesday to validate CBDC use cases that are expected to deliver...
South Korean Pilot Allows Police to Seize Crypto for Non-Payment of Fines
As per a report by South Korean paper Joongboo Ilbo, the National Police Agency of the country is experimenting with virtual asset seizure for non-payment of fines. The pilot is being tested to facil...