The Bank of Jamaica plans to issue a total of $1.5 million of CBDC to institutions and authorized payment service providers as part of a pilot ending this December.
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The Bank of Jamaica is getting ready to begin testing its planned central bank digital currency in collaboration with financial institutions in the country.
3938Reggae and dancehall musicians in the Caribbean may soon have a nonfungible token platform to help gain greater control of their creative work.
12777The Bank of Jamaica has partnered with an Ireland-based tech firm for its central bank digital currency project scheduled to begin in May.
7033Jamaica’s central bank has invited technology solution providers to develop and test a potential CBDC.
3787The Eastern Caribbean Securities Exchange is partnering with Canadian fintech firm Blockstation to trial tokenized security offerings.
1803Following a successful pilot in January, the Jamaica Stock Exchange will launch a limited live-trading pilot with BTC and ETH.
5230The Jamaica Stock Exchange has chosen a Canadian fintech company to launch trading and other related services for cryptocurrencies and tokens.
8051Jamaican Police have crafted a plan to slow human traffickers using Bitcoin.
9173London-based Bitcoin wallet company Caricoin plans to start a Caribbean-dedicated Bitcoin exchange with the Bank of Jamaica.
1312Bitcoin startup Caricoin recently announced the launch of a social mobile money platform for the Caribbean.
875Jamaica had overcome its 12-year drought in Olympic bobsledding, finally qualified, and raised the money needed to get to Sochi. Team #CoolRunnings was in business.
318Here’s how to Internet like a pro: Take a story that elicits images of a beloved movie from childhood (“Cool Runnings”) and somehow find a way to mix that with Reddit’s meme du jour (doge).
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