Ant-backed MYbank to help China expand digital yuan trial
Tencent-backed WeBank and Ant Financial-backed MYbank will reportedly be the first private banks to join China’s digital yuan pilot. China’s central bank is pushing exposure to its ongoing national digital currency pilot by enlisting two major private banks in the project.According to a Feb. 22 Bloomberg report, MYbank and WeBank will help the People's Bank of China extend its user exposure in the ongoing pilots of its central bank digital currency, the digital yuanAs part of the integration, MYbank’s service will soon be introduced to the PBoC’s digital yuan app, people familiar with the....
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China’s e-payment giant will allow some users to link their accounts to the country’s digital yuan app. Alipay, the mobile payment platform owned by Ant Group, is set to allow some of its users to participate in the emerging digital yuan commerce ecosystem.According to a report by China Securities Journal on Monday, this new feature is a result of MYbank’s participation in the country’s expanded digital currency electronic payment testing protocols.The news further cements Ant Group’s participation in China’s central bank digital currency project. Indeed, the conglomerate owns a majority....
Major tech and commerce firms have been instrumental in helping China's central bank develop the digital yuan. Major Chinese technology and commerce firms are starting to open up regarding their involvement in developing the digital yuan.Ant Group and Tencent Holdings revealed the extent of their collaboration with the People’s Bank of China in developing the digital yuan at the Digital China Summit, an annual trade fair in the city of Fuzhou in southeastern Fujian province. According to the South China Morning Post, Ant Group started working with the PBoC on the digital yuan in 2017,....
A lottery in Suzhou will additionally trial the offline feature of the digital yuan, per a Monday report.
China has been developing its central bank digital currency (CBDC), the Digital Yuan, for over seven years. The project has come to a critical test phase and it’s ready to be used by the citizens. A report by CNBC confirms that China will give around $6.2 million in its digital currency to lucky people living […]
The numbers come following the Suzhou municipal government giving away roughly $3 million in a digital yuan lottery for residents. People in China have conducted roughly 20,000 transactions through e-commerce company JD.com in a trial of the country’s digital yuan.According to local media outlet Global Times, JD.com reported that 80% of participants born in the 1980s and 1990s used the platform to conduct transactions in the digital currency starting on Friday evening, with at least one transaction larger than $1,527. The e-commerce site also reported the numbers as the city of Suzhou....