Zimbabwe’s Biggest Bank Looks at Methods to ‘Leverage Cryptocurrencies’
One of Zimbabwe’s biggest financial institutions, CBZ Holdings says it is looking at ways it could “leverage cryptocurrencies and other emerging digital innovations.” According to the financial institution’s chairperson, Marc Holtzman, CBZ “is open-minded about new innovations, as these could open up new opportunities going forward.” Innovations Opening up New Markets Speaking in an interview with a local publication, Holtzman also acknowledges that innovations such as “cryptocurrencies, or rather blockchain more broadly, fintechs, bigtechs and....
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Whether Bitcoin would be a better option for the southern African state of Zimbabwe to adopt as an alternative method of payment or not has triggered an online discussion this past week. It follows the news that Zimbabwe will soon print its own version of the U.S. dollar as its economy suffers a severe US dollar shortage. On 4 May 2016, Governor John Mangudya of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) announced that the government will later – possibly this month - issue bonds with a total value backed by a US$200 million Africa Export Import Bank (AFREXIM) facility. Writing in a piece....
Zimbabwe’s central bank, which has expressed its opposition to cryptocurrencies in the past, announced yesterday it is presently exploring the feasibility of rolling out its own central bank digital currency (CBDC). The bank also said its regulatory sandbox continues to garner interest.
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The Zimbabwean central bank, the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ), has reiterated that it prefers a central bank digital currency (CBDC) to cryptocurrencies, in its latest monetary policy statement. It adds it is now “actively exploring the feasibility of adopting a....
Understanding the concept of FinTech and its importance to the entire world is just the first step along the way. For businesses, innovations in the FinTech world will change the way they do business forever. From a consumer point of view, new and innovative payment methods are being introduced now and then, most of which still rely on traditional financial infrastructure. In fact, consumers might be the biggest benefactors of FinTech innovation. Everyday consumers want access to quick, convenient, and widely-accepted payment methods. Over the past few years, more and more countries have....
Zimbabwe has been shuddering all century from a failing economy that continually causes cash shortages and tumultuous market inflation. According to a recent editorial from the African Mail & Guardian, some economists are suggesting bitcoin as an alternative. Economist Says Zimbabwe Could Benefit From Bitcoin. Since the year 2000, Zimbabwe’s economy....
Zimbabwean lawyer Simba Machiridza has written a white paper on the state of the preparedness of the country as a base for Bitcoin companies. He concludes that Zimbabwe is an ideal destination. Machiridza believes Bitcoin offers a viable alternative to Zimbabwe’s current financial framework, and wrote the paper in order to analyze whether it would be possible for Bitcoin to be adopted in the country, which has a multicurrency regime. He concludes in the white paper that the laws currently in place in Zimbabwe would permit the application of Bitcoin, should the authorities adopt an open....