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"eCurrency Mint Inc. announces the release of the eCurrency Centralized CBDC platform to complement its Decentralized and Hybrid CBDC platforms. With this release, the company can support the full spectrum of central bank CBDC deployment options. eCurrency Mint is the leading CBDC technology provider enabling central banks to securely mint, issue, distribute and monitor digital currency. CBDC is the digital form of legal tender and a direct liability of the central bank. "

"Montran Corporation and eCurrency Mint announced today the successful integration of Montran's Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) with eCurrency's Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) platform. As a result, CBDC is seamlessly interfaced with central bank currency management payment operations. The first implementation is the Bank of Jamaica which currently has Montran's RTGS deployed for final settlement in Jamaican Dollars and is in the process of a national rollout of the eCurrency solution to provide Jamaica's Central Bank Digital Currency, Jam-Dex."

eCurrency and Crunchfish are partnering to offer an offline central bank digital currency (CBDC) solution. The eCurrency retail CBDC platform enables central banks to issue secure digital bearer instruments utilizing the Digital Symmetric Core Currency Cryptography (DSC3) technology and supporting tiered distribution through existing banking and fintech ecosystems. Crunchfish offers digital cash solutions where payments can be made completely offline without compromising personal privacy.

CLabs, the organization behind the Celo ecosystem will be working with central bank digital currency (CBDC) platform vendor eCurrency. Through the partnership, central banks that are trialing or launching CBDCs will be able to use the Celo blockchain to allow end users access to decentralized finance (DeFi) products.

"eCurrency Mint Inc announces the launch of Consulting and Advisory Services for the feasibility, design, plan and implementation of Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC). The service provides access to senior-level career central bankers, world renowned economists and recognized thought leaders with real-world experiences in the design, implementation and operationalization of CBDC. The consultancy services include policy development, regulatory compliance, market dynamics, technology implementation, security measures and operational management."

eCurrency has entered into a long-term partnership with Bank of Jamaica to provide technology services for the national rollout of its JAM-DEX CBDC.

"The Central Bank of Jamaica and eCurrency delve into the topic of CBDCs, based on the pilot that currently tests a digital Jamaican Dollar"

The Bank of Jamaica (BoJ) announced that eCurrency Mint has been chosen as the technology provider to support the Bank of Jamaica in testing a retail central bank digital currency (CBDC) solution in the BoJ's Fintech Regulatory Sandbox for a pilot in May to end December 2021.

The Bank of Jamaica (BOJ), working with eCurrency Mint Inc., successfully completed its central bank digital currency (CBDC) proof of concept (PoC) and pilot work, and will begin a public rollout in Q1 2022. After a prototype was tested in the BOJ's Fintech Regulatory Sandbox, in May 2021 the National Commercial Bank (NCB) was brought onboard for further testing. On August 9-10 the BOJ minted $230 million of CBDC of which $1 million was distributed to BOJ staff for further internal testing. On October 29, the BOJ distributed $5 million of CBDC to the NCB for an NCB-sponsored "Market on the Lawn" pilot event, for which 4 small merchants and 53 consumers were onboarded to conduct transactions between each other. The NCB will continue onboarding customers, plus two additional wallet providers will soon be able to order CBDC from the BOJ and distribute to their customers. Interoperability will be tested between customers of various participating wallet providers.

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) and Bank Indonesia announced the 21 shortlisted finalists for the G20 TechSprint CBDC challenge. The shortlisted teams now have until the end of August to complete their prototypes, which will then be judged by an independent expert panel convened by Bank Indonesia. Winners for each of the three categories will be announced in October ahead of the G20 Summit. Among the shortlisted were BitMint, R3, Ripple, S.e.A. (Stellar, eCurrency and ANZ), Bitt-IDEMIA, Crunchfish, and Giesecke+Devrient (G+D) Filia.