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Policy

Australia Proposes New Licensing Regime for Crypto Exchanges, Aims for Draft Legislation by 2024

The timeline indicates it could take till 2025 for an Australian digital asset platform to receive a licence under the freshly proposed regime.

Australia's government is taking a deliberate approach toward creating crypto laws. (Unsplash)

Policy

Australia's Treasury and Reserve Bank Held Consultations With Coinbase, Others

Private meetings have been held this week around the Treasury's token mapping consultation paper.

Tom Duff Gordon, vice president of international policy at Coinbase, discusses future of crypto, live from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. (CoinDesk)

Policy

Australia’s Central Bank Taps Mastercard and Others to Test CBDC Use Cases

The projects will take part in the country’s central bank digital currency pilot, expected to wrap later this year.

Reserve Bank of Australia (Brook Mitchell/Getty Images)

Policy

Australia Moves to Tighten Safety Around Crypto in 2023

Australia's Treasury has invited feedback for a consultation paper that will include a framework for regulating crypto service providers.

Parliament house, Canberra, Australia. (Unsplash)

Finance

Australia's CBDC Pilot to Be Completed in 2023

The pilot, which is exploring "innovative use cases" for a central bank digital currency, kicked off in August.

Sydney, Australia (Photo by Johnny Bhalla/Unsplash)

Policy

Australia Starts Research Program to Explore Digital Asset Opportunities

The Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Financial Services Stephen Jones officially started the program Monday at the Australian Securities Exchange.

Financial Services Minister and Assistant Treasurer Stephen Jones at the launch of DFCRC. (DFCRC/orlandosydney.com)

Finance

Reserve Bank of Australia Starts Pilot to Explore CBDC Use Cases

Australia's central bank plans to create a CBDC that will operate in a ring-fenced environment.

Australian dollars (Squirrel photos/Pixabay)

Policy

Australia's Central Bank Says Bitcoin 'Not Really Money,' No Risk to Financial Stability

The Reserve Bank's assistant governor for financial systems, Michelle Bullock, said there is "a lot of fuss over bitcoin."

Reserve Bank of Australia building

Markets

Australia's Central Bank Kicks Off CBDC Research Project With ConsenSys as Partner

The partnership, which also includes top Australian banks, will explore the possible use and implications of a wholesale form of central bank digital currency using distributed ledger technology.

Sydney, Australia

Policy

Australian Central Bank Sees 'No Strong Public Policy Case' for CBDC

The Australian central bank does not see a strong case for issuing a retail central bank digital currency, its head of payments policy said.

The Reserve Bank of Australia does not yet see a case for a retail central bank digital currency.

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