Digital currency
France and Tunisia carry out cross-border CBDC transfer
Latest BdF experiment sees central banks make wire transfer using wholesale CBDC
Korea selects CBDC blockchain provider
Central bank chooses telecoms company subsidiary following tender process
South Africa’s new crypto framework: ‘neither hostile nor friendly’
Risk-based approach will bring crypto operations within South Africa’s regulatory perimeter
ECB launches digital euro project
Central bank supports European Commission plan for e-identity rollout across the eurozone
Vietnam’s central bank to pilot ‘virtual currency’
Prime minister orders central bank to develop blockchain-based prototype by 2023
RBNZ to consider CBDC as cash use declines
Assistant governor says trust in financial system may be weakened by fall in cash use
PBoC continues crypto trading crackdown
Chinese deputy governor says PBoC will widen tests of ‘digital yuan’ CBDC prototype
O CBDC, O crypto! Wherefore art thou regtech?
More investment in regtech needed to secure gains from digital evolution
Fed’s CBDC efforts should not be driven by digital yuan, Fed official says
A decision on ‘Fedcoin’ should be independent of action taken by China, says David Andolfatto
Carney warns CBDC delays play into hands of big tech
Failure to launch CBDC risks entrenching power of tech firms, former BoE governor says
PBoC tightens ban on crypto transactions
PBoC warns largest banks to verify customers’ identities and stop aiding bitcoin-related transactions
China abandons cryptocurrencies under the PBoC (this time it’s for real)
New data centres set to be established to compensate provinces for lost crypto mining revenues
El Salvador’s bitcoin currency experiment
Move by first nation to approve bitcoin as legal tender raises important issues
CBDC: the case for ‘wait and see’
Despite growing interest, some central banks are staying out of the digital currency game
The winners of the 2021 FinTech RegTech Global Awards
Fourth annual tech awards recognise excellence among central banks and the firms they work with
Central banks will need new tools if low rates persist – Rogoff
Governments must clamp down on crypto assets while central banks develop CBDCs, economist says
BIS and French and Swiss central banks announce joint CBDC project
Project Jura will link national CBDC initiatives in bid to facilitate cross-border payment
El Salvador to make bitcoin legal tender
President claims the move, a first for any country, will aid remittances and financial inclusion
BoE says stablecoins must be as trustworthy as commercial bank money
Stablecoins may require tailored regulation and access to emergency liquidity facilities, paper says
Thailand’s central bank picks G+D for retail CBDC project
BoT will use Filia platform for proof-of-concept
IMF warns Marshall Islands on digital projects
Local plans for digital currency and economic zone trigger concern at fund
Chinese CBDC could bolster renminbi internationalisation – Hui Feng
Academic believes digital currency efforts could facilitate renminbi’s international acceptance and ‘popularity’
Diem says it will ‘fade out’ stablecoin if Fed issues CBDC
Chief economist of Facebook-backed firm says public sector has “comparative advantage”
Bank of Korea to start CBDC trial in August
Central bank opts for two-tier model for retail digital currency