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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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Federal Reserve Financial Services Introduces FedNow® User Group to Promote Collaboration, Engagement Among More Than 600 FedNow Participants

Fintech Finance

Federal Reserve Financial Services (FRFS) has introduced the new FedNow User Group to continue promoting collaboration among the 607 participating financial institutions and their service providers on the FedNow Service network.

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Swift Sets Industry Up for Seamless Introduction of CBDCs for Cross-Border Transactions as Interlinking Solution Finds More Use Cases

Fintech Finance

The second phase of sandbox testing went further, exploring more complex use cases, using Swift’s solution to connect and orchestrate transactions across simulated digital trade and tokenised asset and FX networks, alongside CBDCs for payments. More than 750 transactions were carried out over the course of the experiments.

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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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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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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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Hong Kong Monetary Authority Expands Exploration of Digital Money with Phase 2 Pilot Programme

The Fintech Times

The HKMA completed Phase 1 of the e-HKD Pilot Programme in October 2023 and had studied domestic retail use cases in various areas such as programmable payments, settlement of tokenised assets, and offline payments. We look forward to working closely with industry participants in Phase 2 to co-create various innovative use cases.”