Crypto / Digital Assets

Crypto / Digital Assets

Indian Banks Offering Incentives to Boost CBDC Use – Report

By Ajoy K Das | 28/10/2023

Participating banks funding incentives to promote e-rupee usage in response to pressure from the RBI.

Crypto / Digital Assets

CBDCs Gain Clout as Medium of Exchange as More Banks Give Buy-in 

By Georgina Lee | 27/10/2023

Ripple’s Ross Edwards and Fubon’s Rockson Hsu talk about the benefits of CBDCs as they explore use cases for HKMA’s e-HKD.

Crypto / Digital Assets

Hong Kong Sets Template for Rules on Ring-fencing Crypto Risks

By Georgina Lee | 26/10/2023

Panellists at the Ripple x Metaco Hong Kong Policy Summit discussed the evolution of Hong Kong’s regulatory framework for crypto assets.

Crypto / Digital Assets

UK FCA Identifies Three Common Issues with Crypto Marketing

By Sanday Chongo Kabange | 26/10/2023

The FCA expects firms authorised to approve financial promotions of cryptoasset firms to take their regulatory obligations seriously.

Crypto / Digital Assets

Regulatory Responses to This Year’s Bank Failures

By Sebastian Sohn | 26/10/2023

Sebastian Sohn discusses the lessons learned from bank failures this year and the supervisory and regulatory changes we can expect as a result.

Crypto / Digital Assets

Asia Braces for Wave of AI Regulations

By Blake Evans-Pritchard | 25/10/2023

The EU AI Act is likely to have far-reaching consequences for Asia, data experts tell Regulation Asia.

Crypto / Digital Assets

Euroclear Launches DLT-based Digital Securities Issuance Service

By Editors | 25/10/2023

The inaugural Digitally Native Notes were issued by the World Bank on LuxSE, raising €100mn to finance sustainable development activities.

Crypto / Digital Assets

SG Court Allows Attaching of Tokenised Freeze Order to Crypto Wallets

By Editors | 24/10/2023

A court-issued freeze order was tokenised as NFTs and attached to wallets linked to a crypto hack.

Crypto / Digital Assets

StanChart, Deutsche Complete First UDPN Proof of Concept

By Editors | 23/10/2023

The UDPN messaging system is designed to provide interoperability between stablecoins and CBDCs, similar to how the SWIFT network facilitates bank transactions.