U.S. Senator Bill Hagerty criticized CBDC in an interview and discussed expanding the U.S. Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, stablecoins, and crypto regulatory legislation. No new official policy action was disclosed.
The report said that Hong Kong plans to include OTC trading in Stock Connect by next year July 1 before CNY OTC trading is included in Stock Connect;CMU OmniClear aims to support CBDC settlement by the end of the year and explore interoperability with tokenized deposits and compliant stablecoins.