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By John Revill and Brenna Hughes Neghaiwi

Dec 4 2020 6:54AM

Large-scale transactions successfully settled.

Swiss central bank says wholesale digital currency trial a success

Switzerland's central bank has successfully tested using digital money to settle large scale transactions between financial institutions, it said on Thursday, but has not decided whether to issue its own digital currency. The experiment, known as Project Helvetia, was run by the Swiss ...

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