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Mastercard Leads New Central Bank Digital Currency Test Platform

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Mastercard has announced a new virtual testing platform for Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs). The testing tool comes as the global economy embraces digital payments and central banks investigate how to support innovation while maintaining financial stability as they issue the currency. In a Wednesday (Sept.

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Visa Seeks Patent On System To Turn Government Currencies Into Digital Blockchain Versions

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patent on a computer system that would convert physical dollars and other fiat currencies into digital versions, complete with denominations and serial numbers and recorded via blockchain. The system would then remove the paper currency from circulation. A central entity may implement a monetary policy and issue currency.

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Will The Pandemic Finally Get Central Banks Interested In Building Digital Currencies?

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The tipping point might be nigh for digital dollars and other central bank-issued currencies done through bits and bytes. Patent and Trademark Office that would create a digital currency underpinned by blockchain technology. A central entity may implement a monetary policy and issue currency.

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MonetaGo, GUUD Team On Secure Transactions

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MonetaGo , which specializes in blockchain technologies, and GUUD Company , which focuses on making international trade smooth, have teamed up on international financial transaction security, MonetaGo announced in a press release. Both companies are based in Singapore. Going paperless has to happen.”.

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Reimagining The Bank As A Technology Company

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Intimidated by the scale and cost of a massive technological overhaul, large financial institutions (FIs) may approach their digital transformation (DX) journeys gradually, targeting various areas of operations to modernize one-by-one. “Banks are technology companies,” Rio Tinto recently told PYMNTS.

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Future-Ready Financial Institutions

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In addition to cultural and economic diversity, Asia also places great demands for leading-edge digital technology on FIs, with an increasing insistence on instant, low-friction services and real-time information. DBS is an advocate for upholding the standards and technology to make that infrastructure work.

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BoA Looks To Create Multi-Currency Digital Wallet

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To provide users with different levels of access to funds that are stored, Bank of America is reportedly aiming to patent a security system that is “partitioned” for crypto-wallets. In separate news at the end of last year, Bank of America was possibly looking into using blockchain technology for automated teller machines (ATMs).