The Italian Banking Association (ABI) announced Thursday that its banks are willing to pilot a digital euro. The group shared 10 considerations for a digital euro in Thursday’s announcement, starting with, “Monetary stability and full compliance with the European regulatory framework must be preserved as a matter of priority.” The group prioritized the need for …
An Iranian lawmaker wants his country’s central bank to take bitcoin seriously. Representative Mohammad Hossein Farhangi (Tabriz), speaking Tuesday before the nation’s parliament, called on the Governor of the Central Bank of Iran, Abdolnaser Hemmati, to handle oversight of bitcoin, according to the Tasnim news agency. Calling proper management of bitcoin a “good opportunity for …
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Alexander Lipton is the CTO of Sila, a visiting professor and Dean’s Fellow at the Jerusalem Business School of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a Connection Science Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. As many still wait to receive the check from the Paycheck Protection Program and Health Care Enhancement Act, which is …
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Quick Take In the past month, the Libra Association has beefed up its AML/KYC chops with two key hires These hires – in addition to the revised white paper from earlier this month – may point to an effort to court regulators and central banks This feature story is available to subscribers of The …
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There has been rapid progress on the CBDC end lately. China has reached the final phase and many other countries are walking the same path. The latest news is the central bank think tank OMFIF launching the Digital Monetary Institute, a forum to further the explorations around central bank digital currencies (CBDC). Philip Middleton, Chairman …
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