Time for a Blockchain Digital Currency, Says Indian Central Bank’s Research Arm
In a significant endorsement of blockchain technology, bitcoin’s underlying innovation, the research arm of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) – India’s central bank – has tested blockchain solutions for core banking processes in the country. More notably, researchers have determined that blockchain technology has “matured enough” to be the core technology to support the digitization of India’s fiat currency, the rupee. Established by the central bank, the Institute for Development & Research in Banking Technology (IDRBT) is the research arm of the RBI and the foremost banking research....
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Financial institutions worldwide are exploring the benefits promised by blockchain technology. The research is moving beyond the hypothetical stage to proof of concept and planning. The Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technology (IDRBT) established by the Reserve Bank of India – India’s central bank – recently explored blockchain applicability to the Indian banking and financial industry by conducting a workshop with bankers, academicians, regulators and technology partners. The participants produced a white paper [PDF] detailing the areas of adoption in the financial....
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An industry group of Indian bitcoin and blockchain-startups have sought an audience with the government as the latter looks to plausibly outline a regulatory framework for the innovation. The Indian government established a cryptocurrency ‘committee’ last week, one comprising of a number of officials from Indian ministries alongside representatives from the country’s central bank to research the framework surrounding digital currencies. The committee was notably co-established by the Ministry of Finance, India’s tax authority. Pertinently, the committee is tasked toward looking into....
The research arm of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), India’s central bank, has completed an end-to-end blockchain technology test involving regulators, banks, financial institutions and clearinghouses, the Economic Times reports. RBI’s Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technology (IDRBT) developed and tested a proof of concept (PoC) for a blockchain-based trade finance application, with the active participation of National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), banks and solution providers. The IDRBT, which wants to be “the premier and preferred Research and Development....
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