Tue, 21-Oct-2025

Novi Digital, a cryptocurrency wallet soon to be launched by Facebook

Facebook grapples with another global outage

Novi Digital, a cryptocurrency wallet that will be introduced soon by Facebook. The wallet would be tied to the Diem Blockchain system.

Board member of Diem and Facebook’s financial services chief, David Marcus, claimed that the current cash-run economy has left 1.7 billion persons “unbanked or underbanked” and still the procedure is really slow.

Marcus stated, “Change is long overdue. It will happen in one way or another. Novi is ready to come to market. We feel that it’s unreasonable to delay delivering the benefits of cheaper, interoperable, more accessible digital payments,”

The launch of the Diem program was planned for the first half of the year 2021, however, the reason for the delay is due to the government Facebook inquiry.

Diem, formerly known as Libra, is a stable coin that converts money transferred to a digital wallet into digital cash and makes it simple to transmit money over the world.

With more than $100 billion costs of transactions in 55 currencies, Facebook, as a payment platform has already been made.

“It’s a misconception that digital assets are by definition anonymous. Built and configured the right way, stable coins and wallets put customer due diligence at the center of their approach to compliance.” Marcus wrote.

As per the post, the firm is trying to meet the terms with the regulators. “It has addressed every legitimate concern that was raised on its journey to design and build a high-quality stable coin”

He added, “This is with extensive consumer protections, and a highly compliant payments network to support it all within the U.S. regulatory perimeter.”

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ECB exceeds incentive of the Fed on digital currency

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The European Central Bank (ECB) is dipping its toe into potentially inviting waters.

President Christine Lagarde took the first step toward a digital euro on Wednesday when she announced the start of two-year research into the feasibility of producing an electronic currency. Despite the Federal Reserve’s caution, the ECB has an incentive to exceed it.

The Central Bank does not want to compete with People Bank of China, which has previously tested a digital yuan in key cities like Shenzhen and Shanghai.

However, Covid-19 has accelerated the death of physical cash: According to an ECB survey of eurozone individuals conducted last year, over nine out of ten people stated they would either definitely or probably pay less in cash as a result of the virus.

A significant question for Lagarde and her colleagues will be whether the central bank’s digital cash drains too many deposits from commercial banks, which are critical for channeling credit to families and companies.

According to a UBS survey of central bank reserve managers, the most-cited possible threat is that digital coins could disintermediate banks, possibly undermining financial stability.

In Europe, this would have extremely bad economic implications. According to Morgan Stanley economists, the region’s banks provide three-quarters of a company’s financing needs; in the United States, capital markets provide the same amount of corporate financing.

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