Tagged: digital currency

December 11, 2025 @ 8:29 am By Omar Faridi  |  

As major jurisdictions across the globe continue exploring the feasibility and effectiveness of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), 2025 has seen a notable shift in emphasis from relatively early retail-payment pilots toward broader infrastructure, cross-border initiatives as well as strategic policy objectives. For the United… Read More

November 8, 2025 @ 3:31 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Major banking institutions are now reportedly calling for the European Union to rethink the Digital Euro. According to media reports, there are now at least 14 large banks asking the EU reexamine its digital euro roll-out strategy. The European Payments Initiative (EPI Company) has now… Read More

September 8, 2025 @ 4:35 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The European Central Bank (ECB) continues to advance its vision for a digital euro, a project aimed at ensuring the resilience, inclusivity, and stability of digital payments in an increasingly cashless world. In a recent address to the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs of… Read More

May 26, 2025 @ 8:20 am By Omar Faridi  |  

US banks have been exploring the launch of a joint stablecoin initiative. Greg Waisman, Chief Operating Officer at Mercuryo, a payment infrastructure platform in the digital token space has noted: “The prospect of a consortium of leading US banks entering the cryptocurrency market with a… Read More

April 30, 2025 @ 3:15 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The global financial landscape is undergoing a shift, with central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) projected to facilitate $213 billion in transactions by 2030. As central banks worldwide race to design the future of public money, a new report, Hyperledger in Action: Central Bank Digital Currencies… Read More

March 26, 2025 @ 11:01 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The growing popularity and widespread adoption of cryptocurrencies and digital payment systems, along with CBDCs, has led to a global conversation about the future of money. Canada is also looking into these transformative trends. Central banks worldwide, including the Bank of Canada (BoC), are exploring… Read More

March 5, 2025 @ 8:42 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Bank of Israel released its preliminary design for the Digital Shekel System and sees public feedback. At the end of 2024, the digital shekel project reached a major milestone with the completion of a high-level design for the DS. The design document is being… Read More

February 25, 2025 @ 7:33 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Kaspersky Global Research & Analysis Team (GReAT) discovered hundreds of open source repositories with multistaged malware targeting gamers and crypto investors within a new campaign that was dubbed by Kaspersky as GitVenom. The infected projects include an automation instrument for “interacting with Instagram accounts, a… Read More

January 6, 2025 @ 9:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Failed crypto exchange FTX’s payment plan is now effective. As per the plan, certain FTX clients who may be claiming an amount less than $50,000 may expect to get their funds returned within the next 60 calendar days. The latest reorganization plan for failed crypto-assets… Read More

June 21, 2024 @ 1:01 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The wCBDC pilot on SIX Digital Exchange will continue over the next two years. The Swiss National Bank (SNB) announced the continuation of the Helvetia Pilot focusing on tokenized securities settlement on SIX Digital Exchange (SDX) in Swiss franc digital central bank money for financial… Read More

June 10, 2024 @ 8:39 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Visa (NYSE: V) recently released a new 2024 Consumer Segment Analysis report unveiling the top digital maturity trends shaping consumers’ financial behavior and how issuers “can keep pace with consumer expectations for seamless, secure digital payments.” Visa’s latest report, in collaboration with Ipsos, provides issuers… Read More

June 9, 2024 @ 4:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Project mBridge continues its development and has reached the minimum viable product (MVP) stage, while broadening its international reach. The project aims to explore a multi-central bank digital currency (CBDC) platform “shared among participating central banks and commercial banks, built on distributed ledger technology (DLT)… Read More

June 5, 2024 @ 6:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

It’s now possible to use digital currency in China in order to save carbon credits. Industrial Bank‘s digital RMB application use-cases continue to expand. Recently, it was reported that Industrial Bank has introduced a new service. This is for newly opened real-name Industrial Bank wallet… Read More

May 1, 2024 @ 3:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

OKX‘s investment arm OKX Ventures has recently announced a research and education collaboration with Stanford’s Future of Digital Currency Initiative (FDCI), aiming to promote blockchain innovation and sustainability. As part of the Stanford School of Engineering’s Department of Computer Science, FDCI is an industrial affiliates… Read More

April 30, 2024 @ 7:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Pakistan’s Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb recently stated that the nation’s government is looking into integrating digital currency transactions within the Asian country’s financial ecosystem. While addressing attendees at the World Economic Forum (WEF) special meeting held in in Riyadh, Minister Aurangzeb commented on Pakistan‘s efforts… Read More

April 22, 2024 @ 11:04 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bybit, a global crypto exchange, has released a new report showing that the current supply dynamics of Bitcoin leave only nine months of supply left on exchanges. This market trend is being attributed to the Bitcoin halving, which reduces supply by 50%. Post-halving, the Bitcoin… Read More

March 29, 2024 @ 5:51 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Australian digital wallet provider and payment startup Stables has announced the launch of international remittances for its thousands of users (focusing on the AU-PH Corridor). From today, Stables users in over 130 countries can send Australian Dollars or Philippine Pesos to over 140 million people… Read More

March 21, 2024 @ 1:14 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Rails, a self-custodial crypto exchange that allows users to trade perpetuals while maintaining self-custody, announced a $6.2 million seed round led by Slow Ventures, CMCC Global, Round13 Capital, and Quantstamp. Rails’ proprietary trading engine combines advanced matching capabilities with a user-friendly interface and a set… Read More

January 30, 2024 @ 7:56 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Stephen Pair, co-founder and CEO of BitPay, recently shared his views and insights with Crowdfund Insider. Stephen Pair from Bitpay talked about the current state of crypto adoption and how the financial services sector can be enhanced with digital currency transactions. Stephen also talked about… Read More

December 28, 2023 @ 6:28 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

After the launch of World ID 2.0 and the open sourcing of the Worldcoin iris recognition pipeline in mid December, World ID verifications are now “available in Singapore via the Orb, the project’s custom hardware device.” A full list of verification locations is available on… Read More