Australia, Malaysia, SG, South Africa to trial cross border payments with digital currencies

Australia, Malaysia, SG, South Africa to trial cross border payments with digital currencies

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Central banks in Australia, Singapore, Malaysia and South Africa will conduct a cross border payments trial using different central bank digital currencies (CBDC) to assess if this allows transactions to be settled more cheaply and easily, the banks said on Thursday.

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