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Vietnam's government has tasked the State Bank of Vietnam to research, propose mechanisms, and conduct pilot implementations of a national digital currency in 2029 and 2030, in coordination with the Ministry of Finance and other relevant ministries and agencies.
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Cash Acceptance in the Eurosystem: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly
The ECB's 2026 survey of companies across 21 Eurosystem countries finds cash acceptance rising to 92%, yet growing concerns about changing consumer behaviour and declining bank branch access cast a shadow over the outlook.
Who Pays for Payments?
A Harvard Business School working paper analyses US payment interchange fees to reveal how wealth is redistributed across income groups – finding that cash and debit users effectively subsidise high-reward credit card holders to the tune of $30 billion a year.
Central Banks and Payments
Cash & Payment News™ sister publication Currency News™ runs a periodic series looking at the latest central bank annual reports in the context of cash activities – production, circulation, counterfeiting etc. In this equivalent period series, we will be looking at those same reports in the context of digital payments.
China Smashes the Time and Cost of Cross-Border Payments
Perhaps the future of cross-border payments is with us. China has now completed its first outbound payment via Cross-Border e-CNY Transfer Services platform (CBETS) to Malaysia, settling a 43,000 yuan shipment of fresh durian. The transaction was executed by China Construction Bank’s Xiamen branch in coordination with its Labuan branch in Malaysia, using direct bank to bank ledger transfers and on the fly conversion into Malaysian ringgit.
The Best of LinkedIn
LinkedIn clings on to its business usefulness despite starting to look like ‘social media’. Within interest communities, such as people and organisations interested in cash and payments, there continue to be posts that make you think.
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First the Digital Euro inched forward when the European Parliament’s (EP) Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee supported the European Central Bank’s (ECB) plans for a digital euro. Then it jumped another hurdle on its route to becoming a financial instrument when the Regulation on the digital euro was approved by the EP.
The AI Threat to the Financial System
Artificial intelligence (AI) threatens the banking system from a number of directions, according to an article by Chris Skinner. Putting the risk that there is an AI bubble to one side, there are three additional areas of risk.
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A Finextra article argues that Africa’s successful fintechs need to move on to tackle interoperability if they are to thrive.
News in Brief
The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) has published a position paper outlining its Cash Smart Strategy, which aims to reduce the cost of cash, ensure it is broadly and equitably accessible across urban and rural areas and promote the ethical, secure and accountable stewardship of physical currency.
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