Central bank Brazil declared participation of Visa and Microsoft COR in the pilot of digital real

The regulator will start connecting companies to a platform of digital national currency in the middle of June Central bank Brazil declared participation of Visa and Microsoft COR in "pilot" of digital real (Real Digital, RD). The regulator published the list from 14 companies and groups of companies, selected for participation in testing of digital national currency. Central bank Russian Federation (Bank Russia) reported that received 36 individual and collective applications for participation in "pilot" from more than 100 establishments. Among them — suppliers of payment services, banks, developers of cryptoprojects, operators of infrastructure systems and other representatives of financial sector...