Blockchain
Benoît Cœuré on CBDCs, stablecoins and central bank fintech co-operation
BIS Innovation Hub chief speaks about fintech risks for supervisors and monetary policy-makers, and hub development plans
Decentralised, private, cash-like: researchers propose CBDC designs
Canadian universities outline several options for a central bank digital currency
Book notes: The currency cold war, by David Birch
Pleasant and interesting read on if digital money will jeopardise US dollar’s dominance in global trade and finance
The role of Tips for the future payments landscape
Tips could play a critical role in providing the infrastructure for a digital euro as well as facilitating fast and efficient cross-border payments
Saudis and UAE say shared CBDC is technically possible
“Project Aber” shows DLT can be used to upgrade cross-border payments, central banks say
How can central banks secure the future of money?
Central banks should start tackling the accounting, legal and policy challenges related to CBDC
Cambodia officially launches quasi-CBDC
Cambodia’s blockchain-powered payment system goes live
The winners of the 2020 FinTech and RegTech Global Awards
Central banks and their partners have innovated across machine learning, cloud services, payments and more
Policy-makers should develop blockchain standards – panellists
Standards should ensure systems can communicate with one another, experts say
Marshall Islands readies to make waves in digital currency
Island nation ready to issue blockchain-based national currency if new government gives the go-ahead
Timothy Lane on CBDCs and why the private sector is no competition for central banks
BoC deputy governor discusses the difference between a private-sector digital currency and a CBDC
MAS finishes work on prototype blockchain payments system
Singaporean central bank and investment fund will share details of blockchain-based payments system
PBoC partners with tech giant to test digital yuan
Chinese ride-hailing firm partners with PBoC digital currency research arm to test digital yuan
CBDC can boost de-dollarisation and inclusion – Cambodia
Cambodia’s central bank says its quasi-CBDC network can promote use of local currency
Campos Neto on reforming Brazil’s economy amid Covid-19 distress
Brazil’s governor details emergency asset purchase plans and backs extending SDR funding
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