China has onboarded a first batch of 26 domestic and overseas financial institutions to its integrated cross-border digital yuan payment platform, marking a further step in building out the digital currency’s payment infrastructure amid Beijing’s push to scale up adoption of the digital yuan, also known as the e-CNY.The institutions will join as direct participants in China’s Cross-border e-CNY Transfer Services (CBETS), which is managed by the People’s Bank of China.The CBETS supports...