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B2B Use Cases Drive Up Real-Time Demand

PYMNTS

In this week's roundup of payment rail innovation, PYMNTS finds B2B payments use cases serve as an important driver of adoption, with FinTechs and financial service providers embracing payment rails old and new to enable real-time B2B payments and foreign exchange. In the latest show of support for distributed ledger technology, J.P.

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Bitcoin Daily: Italy's Banks Test Digital Euro On DLT

PYMNTS

The experiments aim to examine a digital euro’s technical feasibility as well as its “programmability” as a coin separate from a central bank digital currency, (CBDC) according to CoinDesk. Any bank can participate in the digital currency initiative, Ledger Insights reported.

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RTP, Blockchain Make Inroads Within Corporations

PYMNTS

Using infrastructure developed by Visa within its Visa Direct service, Interchecks is leveraging its own platform to facilitate real-time transactions for corporate clients of First Horizon's treasury management solutions. Mastercard Leads Central Bank Digital Currency Test. Zero Hash Embraces Payment Rail Cooperation.

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Is ‘Embedded Regulation’ The Key To Stablecoins’ Success?

PYMNTS

The age of digital currencies might be fully upon us, but key questions swirl about how to issue and regulate cryptos – especially stablecoins. Stablecoins also “have the potential to serve as a digital monetary instrument to embed in DLT applications, including for programmable money or smart contracts,” the paper added.

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Digital Rupiah Inches Closer with Successful Completion of PoC

Fintech News

Indonesia has reached a significant milestone in its journey toward exploring the potential of Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) with the completion of the Proof of Concept (PoC) for the wholesale Digital Rupiah under the auspices of Bank Indonesias Project Garuda.

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SC Ventures and G+D Complete Pilot on Different Types of CBDC Systems

Fintech News

SC Ventures, the innovation, fintech investment, and ventures arm of Standard Chartered, and Giesecke+Devrient (G+D) successfully completed a proof-of-concept (PoC) on the Universal Digital Payments Network (UDPN). Central Bank Digital Currencies must therefore be able to work together quickly, easily and securely across national borders.

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The Corporates Betting On Blockchain To Reshape Capital Markets Infrastructure

CB Insights

Distributed ledger technology (DLT) — which uses tech like blockchain to verify transactions without the need for a centralized authority — is gaining traction as a way to revamp capital markets infrastructure by making it more streamlined, improving transparency, and reducing associated fees. Category Breakdown.