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CBDCs: Sweden's reserve bank is reportedly working with commercial lender to test proposed virtual currency.

Chinese "crypto dad" and ex PBoC director Yao Qian insists digital yuan is not a surveillance tool for the government.

OKEx exchange officially announced establishing a strategic partnership with CuboPay, a local payment processor in Brazil. Exchange users are now allowed to use Brazilian real through PIX in exchan

OKEx, Crypto.com, and LocalBitcoins have integrated Brazil’s PIX instant payments system.

Sweden will trial its CBDC with a live banking participant. The experimentation will involve participation between Riksbank and Handelsbanken, a retail bank chain based in Sweden.

Academic believes digital currency efforts could facilitate renminbi’s international acceptance and ‘popularity’

E-krona pilot project to test technical solution with Handelsbanken and TietoEVRY

55% of survey respondents said that they were aware of crypto despite never owning or using cryptocurrencies.

Amid the global CBDC race, the Canadian central bank does not currently see a strong case for issuing a state digital currency.

Central bank opts for two-tier model for retail digital currency

Bank Indonesia is planning to launch its central state digital currency in response to the increasingly prosperous cryptocurrency market.

Central bank to investigate issuance of a “general-purpose” complement to cash

Monetary Authority of Singapore and Mojaloop Foundation to support the financially underserved with digital currency settlement systems.

BIS Innovation Hub chief speaks about fintech risks for supervisors and monetary policy-makers, and hub development plans

HSBC revealed that the bank has no plan to offer virtual currency as investments to their clients by starting cryptocurrency trading.