Fintech
Australian indigenous nation advances with digital currency
Birri Gubba dollar to be pegged to AUD and backed by assets including carbon credits
CBDCs amplify contractionary effects of monetary shocks – BoC paper
However, research finds no substantial change to transmission mechanism
Bank of Italy makes its new DLT protocol open source
Research says novel cryptographic signature could validate payments and digital asset transfers
Malaysia is latest country to seek Brics membership
However, uncertainty remains over whether Saudi Arabia will join emerging economies bloc
Kazakhstan’s CBDC pilot enters second phase
Central bank to examine how digital tenge could be used to reduce corruption in public spending
Norges Bank’s market operations fixed after global outage
Liquidity operations resumed on Friday following hourly calls with third-party service provider
Palau building blockchain government bond platform
Contract won by Japanese company that co-developed Cambodia’s digital currency
Well-designed CBDC can fulfil role of cash – BoC paper
Researchers argue digital retail public money is necessary to avoid fragmentation
Automated market-makers create market integrity and stability risks – research
Canadian research warns of real economy impact, depending on level of interconnection
China and Kazakhstan to co-operate on CBDC research
The two Asian central banks set to carry out joint research and training
BIS launches joint project to map supply chains
IMF, World Bank, United Nations and others join Project Insight
RBA plans to migrate to third-party data centre
Releases tender for panel of legal advisers to review proposals
Iran and Russia connect payments systems, governor says
Move comes after central Asian banks and payments systems have cut ties to Mir
AI, quantum computing and tokenisation set to transform finance – Menon
But significant barriers remain preventing the technologies from unlocking their full potential
EU central banks don’t want to ‘over-regulate’ AI
Lack of international co-operation may spur regulatory arbitrage, panellists warn
Banque de France and HKMA to conduct cross-border CBDC test
HKMA is the first non-European central bank to join the Eurosystem’s wholesale DLT settlement trials
Bahamas’ central bank will tell lenders to make CBDC available
Governor says central bank will introduce measures over next two years amid low take-up
ECB, EBA and Eiopa publish data point model agreement
Framework aims to maintain and streamline methods of reporting supervisory data
MAS expands asset tokenisation initiatives
Central bank publishes white paper on shared ledger system, and expands ‘Project Guardian’