Macau poised to amend laws to enable digital yuan trials
Macau’s government is taking steps towards introducing a digital currency to combat tax evasion and money laundering in the gambling hub. Macau is pushing forward with preparations fo the roll out China’s digital yuan, which could help crack down on tax evasion in its opaque gambling industry. On April 13, Ho lat Seng, the chief executive officer of the Chinese island territory, told local lawmakers the government is planning to amend legislation that would allow the regulated issuance of China’s digital yuan to facilitate trials of the digital currency: “We will keep communication with....
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Macau's casino junket operators have already been on the rocks during the coronavirus pandemic, and some fear that they could be “faded out” following the introduction of a fully traceable digital yuan. Beijing's bid to better control money laundering and illicit transactions through a fully-traceable central bank digital currency could pose a threat to the country's popular gambling hub Macau. A hotspot for tourists — of which 70% come from mainland China — the region's gambling business could reportedly be adversely impacted by China's use of a digital yuan to clamp down on illegal money....
Macau is inching closer to the eventual adoption of a digital currency as it strives to develop a more comprehensive set of measures to prevent the flow of dirty money and tax evasion in the largest gambling hotspot in the planet. Macau’s executive committee has recently deliberated on a draft measure whose objective is to incorporate digital currency […]
The new digital yuan, currently undergoing trials, can help to increase the international usage of China’s national fiat, experts have stated. As the renminbi (RMB, CNY) is becoming one of the world’s most important currencies, the People’s Bank of China is planning to conduct cross-border tests with the yuan’s digitized version, the e-CNY. Digital Yuan to Facilitate ‘Renminbi Internationalization’ The digital yuan will further promote the process of “internationalization” of the renminbi, Chinese experts believe. This can happen when the....
Macau, one of China’s special administrative regions, recently concluded discussing a bill that seeks to make digital currencies legal tender, a report has said. The report also suggested that individuals who reject or refuse to accept legal tender will be fined between $123 and $1,230.
Improving Macau’s Legal System
An executive council of Macau, an autonomous region on China’s south coast, recently completed discussing the draft bill proposing to include digital forms of currency in its basket of financial instruments that are accepted as legal tender. As....
Trials of China's central bank digital currency continue, with ATMs now starting to be used in Shenzhen.