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Race against time for fiat currencies – Lagarde
IMF managing director envisages digital currencies taking over in countries with “unstable currencies”
CPMI plans response to growth of wholesale payments fraud
Preliminary report outlines proposals designed to tackle security vulnerabilities in endpoints
Monetary Authority of Singapore courts Asia bond issuers
MAS aims to strengthen Singapore’s position as Asia’s fixed-income hub for bond issuers
Central banks will be using blockchain by 2019 – research
Study examines the pros and cons of central banks adopting blockchain
Uruguay’s digital currency pilot ‘close to launch’, says governor
Central bank initiative will allow public to access digital currency via mobile wallets
DLT not ready for retail payments – Bundesbank
German central bank says current retail payment systems are already sufficient to support fast transfers
BoE economist discusses danger of ‘virtual’ bank run
Faster payments and new technology allow customers to drain banks “instantly”, official says
Namibia weighs in on DLT debate
Central bank deems unregulated virtual currencies “unsafe”
Swift helps US real-time payments movement gain traction
The Clearing House will use Swift’s messaging software as “gateway” to new system
RBA payments board backs ‘digital identity’ for Australians
Board encourages payments industry to work on framework for online transactions
Digital currencies could transform the role of central banks – Chilean governor
Marcel is wary of developments with CBDCs, but believes they are still a long way off
IMF explores ways to increase profitability of Italy’s banking sector
The country’s financial sector is fragmented, recording higher operational costs than EU average
Belize launches next phase of payment overhaul
Cheque payments which would have taken up to a week will be processed within 24 hours under new system
Task force calls on Fed to upgrade settlement system
Faster payments task force urges Fed to expand settlement service to all hours
Belarus turns to blockchain for information sharing
Central bank uses technology for new information sharing network
Tensions rise as EU payments deadline nears
Many are concerned by potential flaws in Europe's revised payment services directive
BoE opens RTGS to non-bank payment service providers
Non-banks gain direct access to settlement accounts at the Bank of England for the first time
BoE distributed ledger project delivers cross-border payments success
Bank of England completes transactions across two RTGS networks using Ripple’s DLT solution
ECB wants ESAs to focus on ‘European dimension’
Central bank says supervisors should be reshaped to better promote European interests
CCP network study uncovers highly concentrated core of firms
First data-collection exercise of its kind reveals concentrated core and more dispersed periphery
Macedonia’s Kadievska: DLT could ‘completely replace’ some intermediaries
Maja Kadievska analyses the pros and cons of distributed ledger technology
Fixing the ‘perverse incentives’ in the SLR
Richard Heckinger warns supplementary leverage ratio could discourage use of CCPs
US dealers wade into European CCP relocation debate
CFTC hearing warns of increased margining costs and a pre-Brexit client onboarding crunch
UK payments regulator unveils competition reforms
Reforms aim to open up UK payments infrastructure to competition