Leaked: India’s Bitcoin Ban Bill Aims to Outlaw All Cryptocurrencies
Rumours of a proposed bill in India that bans cryptocurrency may have been confirmed after Indian blockchain lawyer Varun Sethi ...
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Tag: central banks
The Mother of Central Banks Sounds the Alarm on Facebook’s Cryptocurrency Libra
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS), an institution owned by the world's central banks, has issued a stark warning about ...
Russian Gold-Backed Crypto Slams the Global US Dollar Standard
By CCN Markets: Russia is continuing to explore the possibility of a gold-backed cryptocurrency for use as a cross-border settlement ...
German Central Bank Chief Pours Cold Water on Digital Currencies
By CCN: Deutsche Bundesbank president Jens Weidmann has added a dampener to discussions on central bank digital currencies (CBDC), claiming ...
World’s Biggest Banks Splash $63 million on a Blockchain Digital Currency
By CCN: Some of the world's biggest banks are partnering with London-based Fnality International to create a blockchain digital ...
ECB Official Bigs Up ‘Wholesale’ Central Bank Digital Currency, Disregards Bitcoin
By CCN: The Chairman of the Board of the Bank of Lithuania has spoken about the merits of central bank ...
Bitcoin Trading Popularity Spooks Malawi Central Bank Warning Against Cryptocurrency
By CCN: The governor Reserve Bank of Malawi (RBM) has warned that cryptocurrencies are not legal tender and should not ...
Pro-Bitcoin Ron Paul Savages ‘Total Failure’ Fed Reserve for ‘Flat-Out Broke’ America
By CCN: Dr. Ron Paul, former twelve-time US Congressman and three-time presidential hopeful, has stated that money comes from the ...
Powerful Indian Tech Lobby Urges Central Bank to Favor Bitcoin Startups
By CCN: Dominant Indian tech lobby, NASSCOM, is pushing the Reserve Bank of India to be inclusive with cryptocurrencies like ...
Crypto Scammin’ Church Ministers Steal $2.3 Million as OneCoin Promoters
By CCN.com: For cryptocurrency scammers, no grounds are too holy to scout for potential ‘investors’ as everyone, including churchgoers, is ...
Cryptocurrencies Will Never Replace Us, Cries Romanian Central Bank Official
By CCN.com: Central bankers occasionally lose their guard and reveal that they are constantly worrying they will be rendered irrelevant ...
India’s Supreme Court Delays Crypto vs Central Bank Fight to July
By CCN.com: The courtroom battle between the Indian cryptocurrency exchanges and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has reached its ...
India’s Supreme Court Sets 4-Week Deadline for Government to Regulate Cryptocurrency
Time is running out for the Indian government and the Reserve Bank of India to ignore/wholesale ban cryptocurrency, according to ...
70% of Central Banks are Working on Digital Currencies, No Hurry to Issue Them: BIS
A survey commissioned by the bank of central banks, the Bank of International Settlements, has disclosed that even though Central ...
Sweden’s Central Bank Warns of Scammers Selling National Cryptocurrency ‘e-krona’
Sweden’s reserve bank has warned that the individuals and firms purporting to sell the electronic version of the national currency, ...
UAE and Saudi Arabian Central Banks to Jointly Launch a Cross-Border Cryptocurrency
It's confirmed. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Saudi Arabia will work on cross-border digital currency. The exact date when ...
Crypto to Get Regulatory Certainty in South Africa in Payment System Review
Authorities in South Africa are seeking comments on proposed policy changes that could, among other things, offer cryptocurrencies regulatory certainty. ...
Singapore: Bill Tabled to Place Crypto Payment Services Under Central Bank Oversight
A new bill which will impact electronic wallets and digital payment tokens such as bitcoin has been tabled in Singapore’s ...
Central Bank has Final Say on Cryptocurrency Issuance: Malaysia’s Finance Minister
Malaysia has indicated that the country’s central bank has the last word regarding the introduction of new cryptocurrencies. According to ...
Central Banks of Canada, Singapore and UK Propose CBDCs for Cross-Border Payments
The reserve banks of Canada, Singapore and the United Kingdom have singled out central bank digital currencies as being one ...
Central Bank of Azerbaijan Rules Out Issuing Cryptocurrency
The Central Bank of Azerbaijan (CBA) has indicated that it does not intend to issue a state-backed cryptocurrency, also known ...
Singapore’s Central Bank, Stock Exchange Settle Tokenised Assets on a Blockchain
In a blockchain breakthrough, Singapore’s central bank and the country’s primary stock exchange have successfully developed an automated method for ...
New Bank of Israel Report Recommends Against Creating Digital Shekel
The Bank of Israel has released the results of a research study commissioned in late 2017 to examine the feasibility ...
Newsflash: China’s Central Bank Slams Blockchain Investment ‘Bubble’
China’s central bank has called on the government to strengthen supervision into ‘speculative’ financing and investments in the blockchain sector. ...
Area 51 Aliens Had Nothing to Do with Anheuser-Busch’s Planned Asset Sales
Anheuser-Busch InBev appears to be considering a...
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