(12 August 2022 – Iran) Iran officially completed its first import order using cryptocurrency which could enable the country to avoid crippling US sanctions. The US$10 million transaction […]
(2 August 2022 – United States) Banking Circle recently announced it is adding USD Coins (USDC) to its payment network, making it the latest cross-border payment enterprise to launch […]
(1 July 2022 – Asia) The chief representative of the Asia-Pacific Bank of International Settlements (BIS), Siddharth Tiwari, suggests stablecoins are ill-suited as a form of money and […]
(27 June 2022 – Australia) ANZ announced the next step in its digital asset strategy after customer Victor Smorgon successfully purchased tokenised Australian carbon credits (BCAU) using the […]
(2 June 2022 – United Kingdom) The Bank of England (BoE) will assume regulatory oversight over stablecoin issuers in the event they pose a material risk to financial […]
(1 June 2022 – Australia) ANZ is seeking to connect more corporate customers to “A$DC”, the group’s nascent stablecoin solution. A$DC is fully collateralised with Australian dollars and […]
(30 May 2022 – Switzerland) International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva strongly encourages market participants to avoid outright dismissing cryptocurrency technology after the sudden collapse of […]
(24 May 2022 – The Bahamas) Cryptocurrency exchange founder and CEO Sam Bankman-Fried asserts that Bitcoin will have limited application as a payments network until it addresses the […]
(24 May 2022 – Japan) Nomura is launching a crypto-focused subsidiary within its digital asset unit marking another positive sign of growing bank adoption despite recent market instability. Nomura […]
(19 May 2022 – Global) Stablecoins are facing a crisis following the loss of TerraUSD (UST)’s peg, creating unique challenges for payments projects using Blockchain / distributed ledger […]
