13 Results from "South African Reserve Bank"
/payments
South Africa in beginning the roll out of Payshap, a low value, interbank, real-time digital payments service aimed at increasing financial inclusion to the underbanked segment.
16 March 2023
/crypto
The Bank for International Settlements and the central banks of Australia, Malaysia, Singapore and South Africa have developed two prototypes for a shared platform that could enable international settlements using digital currencies issued by multiple central banks.
22 March 2022
The Bank for International Settlements has enlisted the central banks of Malaysia, Singapore, South Africa and Australia to test the use of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) for international settlements.
02 September 2021
The South African Reserve Bank is to conduct a feasibility study for a general-purpose retail central bank digital currency (CBDC)
26 May 2021
/security
The South African Reserve Bank has warned consumers against the use of screen-scraping EFT payments, as bargain hunters flock online for the annual Black Friday shopping spree.
27 November 2020
The South African Reserve Bank (Sarb) has warned the public that it is not withdrawing banknotes and coin because of Covid-19, as criminals carrying fake IDs go house-to-house to collect 'infected' notes.
18 March 2020
/regulation
The South African Reserve Bank is calling on fintech firms to pitch their products to an audience of central bankers, regulators and local institutions at a demo day in October.
23 August 2019
Following three years of experimentation, the Dutch Central Bank has concluded that blockchain technology fundamentally fails to pass muster as a realistic replacement for current financial market infrastructures.
08 June 2018
The Central Bank of Thailand is initiating a project to use a Bank-issued digital currency for interbank settlements.
07 June 2018
The South African Reserve Bank (Sarb) is setting up a dedicated unit to monitor cryptocurrency and fintech developments and inform future regulations and its first job will be to set up a proof of concept (PoC) for DLT-based interbank clearing and settlement.
04 April 2018
The South African Reserve Bank has set out the primary objectives of its recently-established fintech task force, assigning priority to cryptocurrency regulation, sandbox and accelerator assessments, and blockchain experimentation.
14 February 2018
South Africa's Reserve Bank has established a three-man fintech unit to monitor the impact of new technology developments on deposit taking, payments, lending, insurance, and investments.
30 January 2018
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