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Australia Central Bank Considers Electronic Bank Notes

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The central bank of Australia is in the midst of considering whether to create bank notes using blockchain, according to news from The Financial Times.

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B2B Payments: A Guide On How To Optimize Your Cash Flow

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Electronic banking, the rise of fintech, fraud growth, labor shortages, and tightening capital all contribute to adopting new and improved B2B payment methods. Over the past decade, payment methods have evolved to support several consumer and business needs. The same goes for B2B payments.

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SAMA Introduces Naqd to Digitise Government Financial Transactions

The Fintech Times

The platform aims to offer electronic banking services that support government financial transactions, improve the user experience, enhance efficiency and productivity in financial transactions using the latest technologies, and reduce the time required to complete government banking procedures.

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Acumatica Debuts Automated Spend Management Tools

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Cloud enterprise resource planning (ERP) company Acumatica has rolled out its Acumatica Advanced Expense Management and Electronic Bank Feeds for its Acumatica Cloud ERP solution, which will increase automation and electronic banking, according to a press release.

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Today In Digital-First Banking: SWIFT To Retool Platform For RTP; VSoft Rolls Out Bread Merchant Payment Network

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In today’s top news in digital-first banking, SWIFT has announced that its international platform will be updated to let financial institutions (FIs) provide instant transactions, and VSoft has rolled out its new Bread merchant services network. SWIFT to Create New Cross-Border Real-Time Rails.

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TikTok’s ByteDance Bids For Singapore Banking Licence

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The Beijing-based giant with a valuation of $75 billion is competing for one of five electronic banking licences to be issued by the Monetary Authority of Singapore , the nation’s central bank and financial regulatory agency, by year’s end, the report said.

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Sudan Banks And Visa Partner To Bring Payment Systems To Country

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The Bank of Khartoum, Qatar National Bank and United Capital Bank (Bank Almal) have all gotten approval to start using the systems, and they’ll get started in about three weeks, according to the head of electronic banking services (EBS) at Sudan’s central bank, Omar Amrabi.