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Explore SWIFT's role in facilitating international payments, ensuring secure and efficient transactions across the global banking system.
Explore SWIFT's role in facilitating international payments, ensuring secure and efficient transactions across the global banking system.
Global financial leaders converge to explore the future of finance, with ISO 20022, digital assets, China's digital yuan and cross-border payment innovations taking center stage.
SWIFT's take on unified ledgers, IMF's CBDC research and Brazil DREX vision. In the tokenization segment, Visa unveils a new tokenization platform that'll allow central banks and financial institutions to launch their own stablecoins.
The pilot successfully proved that tokenized funds can settle through Swift's traditional payment network, while Project Guardian gets more trials and members.
Mathilde AdamThe pilot successfully proved that tokenized funds can settle through Swift's traditional payment network, while Project Guardian gets more trials and members.
Mathilde AdamGlobal financial leaders converge to explore the future of finance, with ISO 20022, digital assets, China's digital yuan and cross-border payment innovations taking center stage.
Mathilde AdamSWIFT's take on unified ledgers, IMF's CBDC research and Brazil DREX vision. In the tokenization segment, Visa unveils a new tokenization platform that'll allow central banks and financial institutions to launch their own stablecoins.
ObserversA new currency for Zimbabwe plus the rest of the week's banking and CBDC news from Observers.
Alex HarutunianSwift, which has long been international banking’s preferred cross-border payments messaging system of choice, has published the results of an investigation into connecting traditional banks to the myriad of blockchain choices in order to leverage tokenized assets.
Jack MartinThe bankers are finally coming around to the fact that blockchain technology is a far more efficient vehicle for the transfer of wealth. So now they’re trying to come up with ways to stop that wealth from transferring away from them.
Jack MartinSWIFT completes another phase of its CBDC trials. The focus is on cross-border settlements between different CBDCs. The conclusion so far is that their existing systems can handle it.
Alex HarutunianSWIFT, the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication explores blockchain tech to improve the speed and quality of data in operating processes.
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