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Zimbabwe’s Gold-Backed Digital Currency

Recently, Zimbabwe launched a gold-backed digital currency, marking another attempt to stabilize and strengthen its currency. This innovative...

📅 May 12, 2023

Digital Yuan Wallet Apps

Digital Yuan is the digital currency of China. It was first launched in 2014 and has been working...

📅 January 5, 2022

Global Consortium for Digital Currency Formed by WEF

For the adoption of digital currencies, the first Global Consortium which focussed on creating a framework for Governance...

📅 January 26, 2020

Finance minister: MDR charges not applicable for RuPay and UPI from 2020

On December 28, 2019, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitaraman announced that Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) will not be applicable...

📅 December 29, 2019

Bitcoins

Bitcoin is one of the most well-known as widely used cryptocurrency in the world. Bitcoin is a global...

📅 August 2, 2019

Subhash Chandra Garg heads Cryptocurrency panel that proposes ban on private digital currencies

The Inter-Ministerial Committee (IMC) set up to look into the legality of cryptocurrencies and blockchain has recently submitted...

📅 July 24, 2019

Inter-Ministerial Committee on Virtual Currencies submits Report

Inter-Ministerial Committee on Virtual Currencies headed by finance secretary Subhash Chandra Garg has submitted its report to the...

📅 July 24, 2019

ICICI Bank launches co-branded multi-currency travel card with Goibibo

ICICI Bank has launched a co-branded multi-currency card with online travel booking portal Goibibo. Anyone travelling abroad, whether...

📅 May 16, 2019

IIT Kharagpur devises solution to detect fake notes at Smart India Hackathon 2019

The students from IIT Kharagpur have devised unique solutions ranging from detecting counterfeit currency to nuclear radiation tracking...

📅 March 11, 2019