Central Bank of India created a department to develop digital rupee and cryptocurrency regulation rules

The Reserve Bank of India has formed a dedicated department that will deal with the development of the digital rupee and the creation of regulations for the regulation of the cryptocurrency industry. Ajay Kumar Choudhary has been appointed Executive Director of the new division, who will also lead the financial technology and risk monitoring departments of RBI. Now the Indian central bank is working on the creation of two types of digital rupee – for…

E-CNY wallet topped the charts of mobile app stores in China

The pilot version of the official digital yuan (e-CNY) wallet has become the most downloaded smartphone program in local mobile app stores. Launched in app stores on January 4, the digital yuan wallet became one of the most downloaded apps on Android and Apple devices in China the very next day, according to analytics platform App Annie. The number of downloads for the e-CNY wallet, which so far only operates in 11 cities, has exceeded…