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Digital Economy
Building customer-centric purpose bound money
Here's how Amazon is delivering a real-world application for PBM, developed and executed from the merchant’s perspective.
November 15, 2023
Currencies
Indonesia maps out a digital rupiah as a 'tool of the future'
"Digital rupiah is inevitable. It’s the transaction tool of the future."
December 06, 2022
Digital Economy
A digital Singapore dollar may be too much of a good thing: Mukherjee
Without its own paperless currency, how will Singapore’s highly digital economy protect itself from global stablecoins?
November 12, 2021
Cryptocurrency
Facebook's Libra shows you how not to launch a digital currency
Libra’s quick rise and fall is a telltale case of a premature and ill-designed attempt to challenge the powers that be.
May 28, 2021
Fintech
Macau moves step closer to digital currency in threat to casinos
The virtual currency is to reduce money laundering, tax evasion and terrorism financing, according to Ho.
April 14, 2021
Cryptocurrency
Pay for your beef tacos with Bitcoin at Joo Bar
Investment guru Jim Rogers argues that central banks will regulate cryptocurrencies should they challenge central bank currency.
February 05, 2021
Disruption and Digitalisation
SIX and SBI planning digital-asset exchange based in Singapore
Operations are slated to begin in 2022.
December 08, 2020
Fintech
Beyond digital dollar, MAS sees FinTech solving the world's most pressing challenges
According to Sopnendu, central banks around the world are sitting up and taking notice of the power of blockchain technology.
December 04, 2020
Currencies
European Central Bank moves to trademark 'digital euro'
“The Eurosystem has so far not made a decision on whether to introduce a digital euro." - ECB President Christine Lagarde.
October 02, 2020
Currencies
European central banker calls for Euro to go digital
Is a digital Euro the next step towards ever-closer union?
October 02, 2020