FinTech Futures: Top five stories of the week – 25 March 2022
Here’s our pick of five of the top news stories from the world of finance and tech this week.
Here’s our pick of five of the top news stories from the world of finance and tech this week.
The one-year initiative will form part of the central bank’s research into digital currencies and fintech.
Central banks in Canada, the UK, Japan, Switzerland, and Sweden are teaming up.
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Central banks and regulator reveal heightened interest and assesses alternative models.
Payments Canada, Bank of Canada, TMX Group, Accenture and R3 all involved.
There is a misconception about blockchain in the industry surrounding the belief that it is a solution to making faster and securer payments. There are some issues around the blockchain that explain why, in its present form, it isn’t an ideal replacement.
The results from phase two of Canada’s plan for a blockchain-powered interbank payment system reveal that it still faces many obstacles. The Bank of Canada, Payments Canada, R3 and seven commercial banks, have disclosed their report from Project Jasper, an experimental wholesale interbank payment system. First launched in 2015, the results so far show that, […]
Major financial market infrastructures (FMIs) and central banks have thrown their weight behind a Swift initiative to prevent further fragmentation of the ISO 20022 messaging standard as its adoption grows by signing a charter backing principles to harmonise implementations.