Fintech
Swift tokenisation experiments connect multiple blockchains
Banks and FMIs working towards 24/7 global asset trading settlement and servicing
Hungary’s gamified CBDC pilot designed for children
Student Safe project is the first live retail CBDC pilot in Europe
BoE study recommends ‘simple and flexible’ CBDC infrastructure
Central bank needs to be wary of firms wielding too much market power, author says
Custodia opens for business without Fed master account
Wyoming digital assets bank is continuing legal action against the US central bank
Brazilian central bank outlines CBDC project
Drex is being developed on a distributed ledger platform with smart contracts
Russia starts digital ruble trials
Sanctioned banks are participating in CBDC pilot
Brazil’s CBDC to improve access to ‘intelligent financial services’
BCB expected to launch digital currency in 2024
El Salvador’s central bank licenses Binance
Move comes despite growing international regulatory concern over crypto exchange firm
PayPal launches US dollar stablecoin
Company will publish reserves report in September
Fed rate hikes propel ‘crypto cycle’ – IMF paper
Monetary policy more correlated with institutional investment in tech than finance
Guillermo Avellán on BCE independence, capacity-building and dollarisation
Central Bank of Ecuador general manager speaks about the need to bolster the central bank’s legal autonomy, dollarisation challenges, payments developments and monetising local gold production
Panama supreme court rejects crypto law
Judges agree draft law has unconstitutional provisions and was improperly passed
IMF repeats warning on Marshall Islands’ fintech plans
Fund proposes Pacific island state could set up a ‘monetary authority’
Chinese regulators impose fines on Ant Group and Tenpay
Regulators’ priorities have now shifted to “normalised supervision” of platform companies
How advanced AI threatens banking security systems
The future of payments promises to transform the fintech world as traditional friction barriers begin to disappear. Amid this innovation, concerns arise: could the advent of AI technology give rise to novel forms of fraud that overshadow improvements to…
EC proposes legal tender status for digital euro
Legislation envisages digital wallet available on- and offline, while safeguarding cash
Why fear, paranoia and distrust swirl around CBDCs
Populists and conspiracy theorists are exacerbating public concern about retail CBDCs. What can central banks do about it?
Unified ledger could usher in ‘profound’ economic change – BIS
Hyun Song Shin describes single platform for public and private money as “game changer”
Central Bank of Brazil gains crypto regulation powers
BCB will grant and withdraw licences, and oversee operations and management
Central Banking FinTech RegTech Global Awards 2023
Central Banking’s sixth annual FinTech RegTech Global Awards showcase the ground-breaking projects undertaken within the central banking community
Data privacy laws can boost fintech lending – BIS paper
Study finds Californian law led to more data being shared with fintech firms
Hong Kong legalises retail crypto trading
Licensed exchanges will be able to trade major virtual tokens to retail investors
Singapore’s central bank to work with Google on AI
MAS also announces AI training programme for financial sector
Nigeria CBDC uptake ‘disappointingly low’ – paper
The e-naira is technically sound, but actual use is negligible, says IMF study