The BRICS Bank’s vice president and chief financial officer has shed light on the economic bloc’s aspiration to develop a common BRICS currency. His remarks followed recent reports suggesting that Russia has confirmed the BRICS’ plan to introduce a gold-backed common currency, with an official announcement expected to be made during the forthcoming BRICS leaders’…
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This week’s Crypto Biz also explores Gemini’s fight with the Digital Currency Group (DCG) over user funds, new banking tools for the digital yuan, and OpenAI’s efforts to stop users from jumping paywalls. Twitter’s plans to roll out a payment platform took a major step forward this week as its subsidiary, Twitter Payments, received its…
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Beijing, China, says it will introduce “new digital yuan application scenarios,” and wants to take the lead in the adoption of the central bank digital currency (CBDC). Per the Securities Times, the comments were made by Zhao Wei Jiu, the Deputy Director of the Beijing Local Financial Supervision and Administration Bureau. Zhao was speaking at…
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Chinese state-owned banks are set to join efforts to integrate the nation’s central bank digital currency (CBDC), the digital yuan, with government-issued social security cards. Late last month, the Chinese Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security said it wanted to “explore and promote” ways to “add digital yuan payment functions” to the cards. The…
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Crypto-friendly bank DBS announced the launch of a digital yuan merchant collection solution for business clients. The new payment solution will allow mainland Chinese businesses to receive payments in the central bank digital currency (CBDC). The DBS merchant collection platform allows businesses automated settlement of e-CNY into their bank deposit accounts…. Read More: DBS Bank…
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Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin have pushed for the increased use of national currencies in mutual settlements as more countries shift away from the U.S. dollar. “I consider it essential to increase the share of settlements in national currencies” within the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, said Xi at Tuesday’s SCO summit. Meanwhile,…
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Hopes that China’s anti-crypto stance could soon change have been crushed by the appointment of a known crypto-critic as the Communist Party’s top official at the People’s Bank of China (PBoC). According to a recent Wall Street Journal report, the Party’s new appointee to the Chinese central bank is Pan Gongsheng, the bank’s current deputy…
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While metaverse and virtual world projects have nosedived, a recent report of Dappradar, a Web3 tracking site, has revealed that venture capital firms have invested $707 million in these projects since the start of 2023. This means that, even when the metaverse narrative was substituted by meme tokens and artificial intelligence (AI), 43.68% of these…
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