The White House Science office’s request for information seems to be the latest piece in the huge research agenda in President Biden’s executive order on digital asset development. President Joe ...
The Bank of Tanzania is now waiting for the conclusion of its research into CBDCs before making a final decision on adoption of the digital currency. Tanzania’s central bank states ...
Mexico’s central bank is currently working on legal, administrative, and technological requirements for the peso’s digital version launch. Over a year after it was introduced, Mexico’s proposed central bank digital ...
One Hong Kong official thinks that a government-backed stablecoin might serve as a better entry point to Web3 compared to private stablecoins. Hong Kong authorities are now looking for new ...
The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston has published a statement confirming that research into the technical feasibility of a possible digital dollar has concluded. A joint venture in partnership with ...
A survey of the continent’s central banks indicates that there is optimism about greater efficiency and inclusion. However, several drawbacks remain. Nigeria already has an operational retail CBDC. Mobile money ...
The Fed discussion paper reviews the literature on the effect of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) in large, developed economies and publishes some conclusions on particular design elements. In that ...
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) together with four central banks has now completed a successful pilot of the use of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) by commercial banks for ...
The BIS Innovation Hub and the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) cooperated on a distinct CBDC design that reflects the realities of money issuing in the special administrative jurisdiction. HKMA ...
Financial messaging system SWIFT has set out its blueprint for a global central bank digital currency (CBDC) network after an 8-month experiment on different currencies and technologies. The trial, which ...
