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India and UAE to Collaborate on Developing Digital Currencies

The countries will see if their central bank digital currencies will be interoperable.

The Reserve Bank of India (Shutterstock)

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EU Merchants Could Be Required to Accept Digital Euro, Ministers Told

Governments from the euro currency bloc are due to discuss strategic objectives for the CBDC later Monday.

Ministers are set to discuss a digital euro. (Maarten Wouters/Getty Images)

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Senior U.S. House Republican Says CBDCs Could Be ‘Weaponized’ as Political Tool

Majority Whip Tom Emmer is seeking to halt the Federal Reserve’s ability to issue a new digital dollar.

U.S. Rep. Tom Emmer (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

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SWIFT to Conduct More Tests With CBDC Project

The banking network is seeking to build a system that will connect the digital currencies of different countries.

SWIFT está intentando conectar a las CBDC de todo el mundo. (Yuichiro Chino/Getty Images)

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BIS Says 'Hub-and-Spoke' Cross-Border Transfers Offer Benefits to Retail CBDC

The system is designed to offer users the best foreign-exchange rates and faster transactions while allowing central banks to keep almost total control of their currencies.

(Hubert Neufeld/Unsplash)

Videos

Will CBDCs Be a Boon or Bane?

Host Joel Flynn discusses the potential impact of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) on the crypto industry. That story and other news shaping the cryptocurrency world in this episode of "The Daily Forkast."

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Nigeria Picks Bola Tinubu as President Amid Cash Shortages

Tinubu will replace Muhammadu Buhari, whose government issued the eNaira and banned banks from interacting with crypto firms.

Nigerian flag (Emmanuel Ikwuegbu/Unsplash)

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Ex-Biden Adviser Said Administration Was Pushing for Digital Dollar

As the crypto industry awaits a U.S. government decision on whether to issue a central bank digital currency, a former economic official said it was working toward that end.

Former U.S. Deputy National Security Advisor Daleep Singh (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

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DLT Not Efficient Enough to Power CBDCs: BOE’s Cunliffe

The Bank of England is experimenting with tokenizing assets for real estate sales as well as developing a digital pound, lawmakers were told.

The Bank of England's Jon Cunliffe (Ben Pruchnie/Getty Images)