Blockchain
Banque de France CBDC project uses blockchain to settle transactions
Central bank and French lender use blockchain platform to pay for €40m securities tokens
CBDCs unlikely to be based on blockchain – Central Banking survey
New Central Banking survey finds central banks favour DLT for possible digital currency projects
Libra’s Disparte on big tech’s move into digital currency
Facebook-backed consortium still has more than 3 billion customers in its sights
Argentina’s central bank takes part in blockchain clearing pilot
Test system will use smart contracts with timestamping from the bitcoin blockchain
Book notes: After the crash, by Sharyn O’Halloran and Thomas Groll
Book seeks to identify seeds of next crisis, and overriding impression is a plea for more regulation
South Korean central bank tests blockchain for bond markets
Bank of Korea is the latest to test DLT-based system for transactions
Initiative of the year: Bank of Thailand
Thai central bank used two-way communications to support delivery of major initiatives
Cambodia’s blockchain payment network will go live in early 2020
National Bank of Cambodia to become first central bank to launch peer-to-peer payment system
Payment services: Swift
Organisation has responded strongly to threats from cyber crime and decline of correspondent banking
Hong Kong and Thailand launch next phase of cross-border CBDC project
CBDC-based payments can cut costs and boost speed, HKMA and Bank of Thailand study shows
2020: fintech and beyond
Central bankers share their thoughts on fintech – past, present and future
In search of a better definition of digital money
Dave Birch tries to cut through the noise on cryptocurrencies, blockchains and everything in between
New ‘currency’ aims to tackle failings of its predecessors
Saga sits somewhere between a stablecoin and a crypto asset
Banque de France to launch CBDC experiments in 2020
De Galhau says new directorate will look at using wholesale CBDC in transactions for tokenised assets
The pursuit of ‘fintecgrity’
How can regulators maintain integrity at the confluence of finance and technology?
Cœuré flags risks to ‘autonomy and resilience’ of European payments
Central banks need to resist payment market fragmentation, says ECB official
PBoC to rein in fintech firms after President Xi praises blockchain
Central bank will verify blockchain-compatible products
MAS develops multi-currency blockchain network
Prototype enables payments to be carried out in different currencies
What is behind China’s digital currency aspirations?
The PBoC sees CBDC as a means of riding the wave of digitisation, and potentially challenging the US dollar’s dominance, writes Hui Feng
Cambodia extends blockchain payment system pilot
Central bank lengthens trial to end-2019 and explores including cross-border transactions
BdF paper looks at digital currency and remuneration
Remuneration is key consideration for design of central bank-issued digital currencies, paper argues
Bankers are ignoring crypto assets’ flaws – expert
Technologists are more worried than financiers by problems, expert tells IMF panel
Regulators should embrace digital ID
Lack of single ID in financial services is causing unnecessary friction, argues Dave Birch
30 years of central banking
Central banks face credibility tests on a number of fronts