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Elastos joins forces with The Metaverse Bank

News | Digital Identity, Security & Online Fraud | 07 Feb 2024

Elastos has partnered with The Metaverse Bank (TMB) to deliver decentralised digital ID services, to enable users to verify any form of personal credential securely. 

online security, digital identity, blockchain, metaverse, web3

Basic principles of operation of CBDC cryptobanknotes – part 2

Voice of the Industry | Payments General | 13 Dec 2023

Payment expert and researcher, Andrei Lipkin, the originator of the term ‘Cryptobanknotes’, reveals more on the basic operation principles of cryptobanknotes and the anonymity and autonomy these notes entail.

CBDC, blockchain, banks, payments , digital currency, cash

BankDhofar partners with Diebold Nixdorf

News | Online & Mobile Banking | 08 Dec 2023

BankDhofar has announced its partnership with Diebold Nixdorf in order to utilise its RM4V cash recycling engine for an overall improved customer experience. 

partnership, green finance, mobile banking, online banking, digital banking, banking, financial services, financial institutions

Block winds down certain European operations

News | Payments General | 08 Aug 2023

Digital payments company Block has planned to shutter the P2P business Cash App’s Verse brand in the EU and BNPL platform Clearpay in Spain, France, and Italy.

payments , fintech, paytech, P2P, BNPL, investment

Airwallex partners with OurCrowd to improve global startup investment

News | Payments General | 03 Aug 2023

Global payments and financial platform Airwallex has partnered with Israel-based OurCrowd to facilitate investments in global startups.

partnership, investment, startup, financial services

The synergy between CBDC and mobile money

Voice of the Industry | Payments General | 27 Jun 2023

Athu Karume, eCurrency’s President of Africa Markets, presents the benefits of a CBDC implementation that integrates into the existing mobile money services and systems.

CBDC, mobile money, payment methods, cross-border payments, tokenization

Curve Finance deploys smart contracts for the crvUSD stablecoin

News | Cryptocurrencies | 05 May 2023

Switzerland-based Curve Finance has deployed smart contracts for the crvUSD stablecoin on the Ethereum mainnet.

stablecoin, product launch, smart contracts, cryptocurrency

Societe Generale-FORGE launches the Coinvertible stablecoin

News | Cryptocurrencies | 21 Apr 2023

France-based Societe Generale-FORGE has launched the CoinVertible digital asset in Euro denomination on the Ethereum public blockchain.

stablecoin, product launch, blockchain, digital assets

The Reserve Bank of India prepares to launch a CBDC pilot

News | Cryptocurrencies | 24 Nov 2022

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has started to prepare the rollout of a retail digital rupee pilot following a testing phase of the wholesale usage of its CBDC.

cryptocurrency, CBDC, central bank, crypto asset

Astrea VI private equity bonds tokenised by iSTOX

News | Cryptocurrencies | 22 Mar 2021

The Astrea VI private equity bonds have been tokenised by iSTOX (through Prometheus-3) to reduce the minimum investment ticket by up to 10 times. 

tokenization, investment, security token, digital assets, partnership

Visa files patent for digital currency development

News | Cryptocurrencies | 18 May 2020

Visa has filed a patent application to develop a digital currency, potentially using Ethereum as the blockchain.

digital currency, Ethereum, blockchain, Visa, stablecoin, digital wallet, public key, patent

Bank of Lithuania approved the sample of a digital collector coin

News | Cryptocurrencies | 20 Jan 2020

The Board of the Bank of Lithuania has approved the sample of the physical version of the digital collector coin.

Bank of Lithuania, digital collector coin, silver coin, LBCOIN, blockchain, Lithuania

Toron, PayToGo International sign partnership

News | Payments General | 07 Jan 2020

Toron and PaytoGo, a financial technology solutions provider and a B2B platform, have signed a binding co-branding agreement.

Toron, partnership, agreement, PayToGo International, B2B, financial technology, digital wallet, Matercard, Visa, bank accounts, AML, KYC, bills, credit cards, ATMs

Natixis, Raiffeisen Bank join global tokenised collateral trial on R3s Corda

News | Cryptocurrencies | 18 Oct 2019

Ivno, a fintech company, has announced that it has successfully completed a global trial involving collateralised tokens on the Corda blockchain platform, hosted on Microsoft Azure.

Ivno, Raiffeisen Bank, Corda, blockchain, tokens, payments , instant settlement

Italys alternative cash plan to raise scepticism

News | Payments General | 22 May 2018

Italy’s would-be government has proposed to pay its bills by issuing small-denomination bonds that would work as a form of parallel currency.

small denomination bonds, currency, euro zone, Italy, IOU, alternative payment methods, MiniBOT

Fintech innovation in India – payments at your fingertips

Voice of the Industry | Expert Opinion | 12 Dec 2017

Manoj Kheerbat from Gropay tells us to forget about cards or smartphones, as in India it’s possible for a consumer to authorise and authenticate a payment with their fingerprint.

Manoj Kheerbat, Gropay, fintech, India, India Stack, denomination, Reserve Bank of India, financial inclusion, Aadhaar, biometrics, digital identity

Digital transactions touch 859.2 mln in July 2017

News | Mobile Payments | 11 Aug 2017

Digital transactions in July 2017 grew almost 2% from the previous month to touch 859.2 million, according to provisional data released by the Reserve Bank of India.

digital transactions, Reserve Bank of India, mobile wallet, payments , UPI

The war on cash

Voice of the Industry | Expert Opinion | 27 Mar 2017

Darren Busby, Compass Plus: ...we should look at cash not as the enemy, but as a constant that we can modernize alongside.

Darren Busby, Compass Plus, cash, mobile payment, online payment, currency, money, credit card, UK, Europe, cashless, digital

India shores up cashless payment methods

News | Online Payments | 14 Feb 2017

The Indian government is expected to halt duties to bolster cashless payment methods, whilst cutting taxes on specific payment terminal components in a bid to boost domestic manufacturing of the devices.

India, government, cashless, payment methods, taxes, payment terminal, domestic manufacturing, devices

Uphold rolls out virtual MasterCards for purchases with Bitcoin

News | Cryptocurrencies | 29 Nov 2016

Uphold, a cryptocurrency platform, has launched prepaid virtual MasterCard to make spending digital currency a bit easier.

Bitcoin, Litecoin, Ethereum, Voxel, cryptocurrency, Uphold, MasterCard, US, virtual cards, online payments