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HKMA Unveils Stablecoin Sandbox Participants, Ensuring ‘Sustainable and Responsible Development’

The Fintech Times

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) has revealed the participants for its stablecoin issuer sandbox, which will be able to test plans to issue a stablecoin in Hong Kong. HKMA expects all sandbox participants to comply with the sandbox requirements.

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Fourteen Teams Have Been Chosen to Participate With the Bank of Israel in the “Digital Shekel Challenge”

Fintech Finance

On May 28, 2024, the Bank of Israel announced the “Digital Shekel Challenge” – an experiment inspired by “Project Rosalind”[1] carried out by the BIS Innovation Hub. The teams that proposed use cases in the Challenge represent veteran financial companies, fintech firms, technology firms, and private teams.

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Project Ensemble: Hong Kong Embraces Asset Tokenisation With New Sandbox

The Fintech Times

On 28 August 2024, HKMA officially launched the Project Ensemble Sandbox, which will test a wide range of tokenisation use cases, including the settlement of tokenised real-world assets (such as green bonds, carbon credits, aircraft, electric vehicle charging stations, and treasury management).

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Mastercard and The Clearing House deepen their partnership to zero in on new instant payments applications 

Tearsheet

This extended partnership will focus on integrating additional instant payment use cases across a range of payment flows for consumers, businesses, and governments. FedNow and RTP are eyeing new use cases to compete for bank partnerships, however, achieving widespread adoption remains a shared hurdle for both instant payment rails.

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Open Banking Excellence (OBE) Launches First of its Kind Open Banking in a Box Programme to Drive UK Ecosystem Expansion Abroad

Open Banking Excellence

With the UK government continuing to support the UK’s broader fintech environment and promote open banking innovation, Open Banking in a Box will champion the UK’s world-leading open banking standards and make the case for greater cross-border interoperability that will benefit UK PLC and support financial inclusion globally.

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UK Finance Taps R3 and Quant for Blockchain Prototype to Advance Digital Payments Infrastructure

The Fintech Times

The creators envision the UK RLN as a unified ‘innovation platform,’ integrating various currency forms like current commercial bank deposits and a shared ledger for tokenized commercial bank deposits. We’re excited to be part of a truly pioneering initiative that will hopefully inform other future innovations.”

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Innovating Cross Border B2B Payments: It Takes An Ecosystem

PYMNTS

The current climate of innovators appears to be up for the challenge, however. Whether innovators develop new payment rails or create solutions that wield existing ones, they must take an ecosystem approach to easing friction. Accelerating Ecosystem Innovation. “It’s just so inefficient.