Global financial leaders converge to explore the future of finance, with ISO 20022, digital assets, China's digital yuan and cross-border payment innovations taking center stage.
More than 180 million digital yuan wallets have now been created — but over in the UK, campaigners fear "Britcoin" could plunge privacy and freedom of expression into peril.
The Chinese-led mBridge protocol is making progress, with the second digital yuan payment transaction publicly recorded. India's CBDC program has five million users but no public transaction figures to share. Experimentation with tokenization is expanding across the region.
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Chinese officials have already warned that transacting in Tether is illegal—and late last year, it urged local authorities to embark to impose tighter restrictions and punish those responsible.
