The Fintech Times

AUGUST 28, 2024

Looking to harness this potential, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) launched ‘Project Ensemble’ in March earlier this year, a wholesale central bank digital currency (wCBDC) project, to support the development of the tokenisation market in the region.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 7, 2020

Federal Reserve Board members this week shed some light on the timing and mechanics of FedNow — an always-on, fully interoperable interbank-settlement service that will give rise to instant payments in the United States. For the Federal Reserve, real-time payments will take time — three or four years’ time, to be specific.

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Fintech News

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Efforts were also made to advance digital assets, tokenization and central bank digital currency (CBDC) experimentation with initiatives such as Project Guardian and Project Orchid expanding to include more use cases and moving towards “live” pilots.

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Finovate

JANUARY 31, 2024

lags behind its peers when it comes to central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), and learn about U.S. Swiss digital asset bank Sygnum scores new funding Has crypto winter yielded to the year’s first crypto unicorn? interbank settlement system compared to similar systems in Europe that were deployed sooner.

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