Central bank digital currency
Digital euro ‘may require’ battery-powered cards for offline use
Eurosystem could develop its own app to manage digital euro accounts
SNB carries out first tokenised monetary policy operation
Central bank issued $72 million in bonds on DLT settled in wholesale CBDC
Iran to launch digital rial on Kish Island
Central bank aims to develop digital micropayments domestically
BIS finds a third of jurisdictions not developing crypto regulations
Annual CBDC and crypto survey finds decline in expected retail CBDC launches by 2030
CBDC will not reduce seigniorage, panellists say
Communicating need for CBDC is hard, officials tell Central Banking Summer Meetings
Most central banks resistant to crypto in retail payments
Just six central banks are open to retail payments being facilitated by digital assets like bitcoin
CBDC would have little effect on real economy – BoK paper
Researcher says CBDCs would have marginal but positive effects on output
Saudi Central Bank joins mBridge
Cross-border CBDC project with China, Hong Kong, Thailand and the UAE opens up further to private sector
Most Germans would use digital euro – Bundesbank
Privacy, sturdiness and offline functionality among top concerns, survey finds
Cross-border payments key to boosting riel, Cambodian governor says
QR payments set to expand to India and Japan, as central bank aims for independent monetary policy
Central Bank of Brazil delays crypto regulation to end of year
Second public consultation to be launched
China links CBDC to Hong Kong’s fast payments system
Hong Kong residents can top up wallets via 17 retail banks as PBoC continues to promote use
World Bank to issue first international CHF digital bond
Bond to be settled by Swiss franc wholesale CBDC
HKMA creates tokenisation advisory group
New group includes BIS Innovation Hub, regulators, academics, banks and tech firms
Bundesbank’s Nagel: central bank business models are changing
Panetta says wholesale CBDC likely to launch sooner than retail; Das gives update on digital rupee
DNB surveys Dutch consumers on CBDC use
Half of the population would not open CBDC current account, study finds
BdF governor: ‘We will need a CBDC’
European central banks should not “lag behind” on CBDC and AI, says François Villeroy de Galhau
Retail CBDC complexity may discourage adoption, says research
Kansas City Fed author argues Caribbean CBDCs have struggled to add value
Former head of PBoC’s digital currency arm under investigation
Probe comes after Beijing launched a three-month anti-graft inspection
Day-to-day payments too reliant on big tech – BdF deputy
Digital euro will not create a European ‘Big Brother’, Denis Beau says
BoJ considers allowing external access to CBDC data
Digital yen API sandbox launched in April
Retail CBDC would extend central bank balance sheets – ECB paper
Frequent fine-tuning of monetary policy operations could become the norm
RBNZ seeks views on design of ‘digital cash’
New Zealand central bank continues proof-of-concept work on “private and secure” CBDC
Bundesbank partners with MIT on digital euro privacy
EU previously raised concerns about single access point to verify holding limits