Blockchain
Recipe for a chief (fin)tech officer
Private-sector experience, a knowledge of supervision and a zest for innovation are key ingredients for a chief fintech officer
Vietnam’s central bank to pilot ‘virtual currency’
Prime minister orders central bank to develop blockchain-based prototype by 2023
Benoît Cœuré on CBDCs, stablecoins and central bank fintech co-operation
BIS Innovation Hub chief voices concerns about the timing of stablecoin and CBDC roll-outs, fintech risks for supervisors and monetary policy, and details development plans for eight innovation locations
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 whether digital money will jeopardise the US dollar’s dominant role in global trade and finance
The role of Tips for the future payments landscape
Tips could support euro CBDC plus cross-border payments in many currencies
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. This work will shape the future of money, as could be witnessed in Albania
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 its new government gives the go-ahead, chairman of foundation says
Timothy Lane on CBDCs and why the private sector is no competition for central banks
The Bank of Canada deputy governor discusses the difference between a private-sector-motivated digital currency and a CBDC, and why finding a balance between privacy and regulation is such a challenge
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 and improve financial inclusion
Campos Neto on reforming Brazil’s economy amid Covid-19 distress
The Central Bank of Brazil governor speaks about how Brazil is managing fallout from the coronavirus pandemic, the benefit of large reserves, his plans to deploy emergency asset purchases and why he favours extending the IMF’s 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
Libra Association vice-chair Dante Disparte speaks about the decision to abandon a multi-currency reserve, stress-testing a global payment network and how the Facebook-backed body still has 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
The book seeks to identify seeds of the next crisis, and the 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
The Thai central bank has used two-way communications to support the delivery of major initiatives, including an instant payment system