Australia's Treasury and Reserve Bank Held Consultations With Coinbase, Others
Private meetings have been held this week around the Treasury's token mapping consultation paper.
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Mar 15, 2023 at 10:11 a.m. UTC
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Australia’s Central Bank Taps Mastercard and Others to Test CBDC Use Cases
The projects will take part in the country’s central bank digital currency pilot, expected to wrap later this year.
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Mar 1, 2023 at 10:50 p.m. UTC
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Australia Moves to Tighten Safety Around Crypto in 2023
Australia's Treasury has invited feedback for a consultation paper that will include a framework for regulating crypto service providers.
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Dec 14, 2022 at 8:29 a.m. UTC
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Australia's CBDC Pilot to Be Completed in 2023
The pilot, which is exploring "innovative use cases" for a central bank digital currency, kicked off in August.
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Sep 26, 2022 at 11:20 a.m. UTC
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Australia Starts Research Program to Explore Digital Asset Opportunities
The Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Financial Services Stephen Jones officially started the program Monday at the Australian Securities Exchange.
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Aug 30, 2022 at 9:45 a.m. UTC
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Reserve Bank of Australia Starts Pilot to Explore CBDC Use Cases
Australia's central bank plans to create a CBDC that will operate in a ring-fenced environment.
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Aug 9, 2022 at 8:51 a.m. UTC
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Australia's Central Bank Says Bitcoin 'Not Really Money,' No Risk to Financial Stability
The Reserve Bank's assistant governor for financial systems, Michelle Bullock, said there is "a lot of fuss over bitcoin."
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Feb 5, 2021 at 10:59 a.m. UTC
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Australia's Central Bank Kicks Off CBDC Research Project With ConsenSys as Partner
The partnership, which also includes top Australian banks, will explore the possible use and implications of a wholesale form of central bank digital currency using distributed ledger technology.
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Nov 1, 2020 at 11:28 p.m. UTC
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Australian Central Bank Sees 'No Strong Public Policy Case' for CBDC
The Australian central bank does not see a strong case for issuing a retail central bank digital currency, its head of payments policy said.
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Oct 14, 2020 at 3:59 a.m. UTC
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80% of Australians Know About Crypto but Only 1% Use It: Central Bank Study
Fewert than 1 percent of surveyed Australians paid for consumer goods with cryptocurrency in 2019, according to a new study by the Reserve Bank of Australia.
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Mar 20, 2020 at 10:00 a.m. UTC
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