The BRICS digital payment system advances

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Date: August 4, 2024

October 17 update:
BRICS Pay officially unveils a new demo, according to its official website.
Users can test it at the BRICS Business Forum in Moscow, linking a one-time QR code card in the app and receive 500 rubles for purchases at BRICS Pay-labeled stores.
October 12 update:
Russia has proposed a new cross-border payment system at a BRICS meeting in Moscow.
The plan includes using local currencies, direct links between central banks, and distributed ledger technology (DLT) for faster, more secure settlements.
It also suggests creating trade centers for key commodities like oil and gold.
This comes ahead of the BRICS summit in Kazan, scheduled for October 22-24.
Older news:
Russia is advancing its plans for a BRICS digital payment system, according to Valentina Matviyenko, the Federation Council Speaker.
In response to sanctions and being cut off from SWIFT, the Bank of Russia has developed its own payment system, which has already seen participation from several countries.
Matviyenko announced that progress on the BRICS digital payment platform is ongoing.
"The creation of the independent financial payment platform BRICS Bridge, a standalone mutual payment system on a firm joint platform, is now being discussed within BRICS.
I have spoken both with the Central Bank and the Finance Ministry, things are moving along nicely," she said in a press conference.

Government documents from 2014 refer to XRP

The United States Government Accountability Office:
Other virtual currencies that have been created are not based on the bitcoin protocol.
One of the more prominent examples is XRP, which is used within a decentralized payment system called Ripple.
Ripple allows users to make peer-to-peer transfers in any currency.
A key function of XRP is to facilitate the conversion from one currency to another.
For example, if a direct conversion between Mexican pesos and Thai baht is not available, the pesos can be exchanged for XRP, and then the XRP for baht.
Source: www.gao.gov

World Bank Looking to Trim Poor Nations Debt

The World Bank is looking at ways to reduce the amount of debt owed by poor countries, rather than simply delaying payments, to attract more investors in the wake of the global pandemic and recession, President David Malpass said.
President of the WorldBank Group remarked to G20 Finance Ministers & Central Bank Governors: I emphasized the need for further progress on Debt Suspension, Debt Reduction, Debt Resolution, Debt Transparency.
Sources:gesara.news, finance.yahoo.com

The BRICS digital payment system advances

October 17 update:
BRICS Pay officially unveils a new demo, according to its official website.
Users can test it at the BRICS Business Forum in Moscow, linking a one-time QR code card in the app and receive 500 rubles for purchases at BRICS Pay-labeled stores.
October 12 update:
Russia has proposed a new cross-border payment system at a BRICS meeting in Moscow.
The plan includes using local currencies, direct links between central banks, and distributed ledger technology (DLT) for faster, more secure settlements.
It also suggests creating trade centers for key commodities like oil and gold.
This comes ahead of the BRICS summit in Kazan, scheduled for October 22-24.
Older news:
Russia is advancing its plans for a BRICS digital payment system, according to Valentina Matviyenko, the Federation Council Speaker.
In response to sanctions and being cut off from SWIFT, the Bank of Russia has developed its own payment system, which has already seen participation from several countries.
Matviyenko announced that progress on the BRICS digital payment platform is ongoing.
"The creation of the independent financial payment platform BRICS Bridge, a standalone mutual payment system on a firm joint platform, is now being discussed within BRICS.
I have spoken both with the Central Bank and the Finance Ministry, things are moving along nicely," she said in a press conference.

Ghana plans to buy oil with gold rather than dollars

Ghana working on a plan to buy oil with gold rather than the dollar.
Ghana's government is working on a new policy regime where gold will be used to buy oil products rather than U.S. dollar reserves, Vice-President Mahamudu Bawumia said on Facebook on Thursday.
Sources: reuters.com

Fiat destruction. Crypto or gold?

The world stands on the threshold of monetary hyperinflation with the US dollar leading the way. The final months of fiat money are coming into view.
The final solution is bound to be with central banks and government treasury departments retaining their control as issuers of money by the only means at their disposal: deploying their gold reserves to back their currencies, not as fiat, but as credible gold substitutes.
The crypto cohort is likely to have an important effect, in that it sparks an early realization in a growing part of the wider population about what government is doing with money. That is likely to speed up the collapse of fiat currencies compared to what would otherwise occur.
The flexibility in the supply of monetary gold and the stability of prices allows the original rate of interest to be both low and stable. It allows entrepreneurs to do business calculations with a high degree of certainty, knowing in terms of goods the value of money. And savers, who provide the monetary capital for future production can be confident of the future capital value of their savings when lending them for business investment purposes.
Sources: kingworldnews.com, www.zerohedge.com