In a recent speech, Bank of Israel Deputy Governor Andrew Abir expressed his support for the competition between commercial banks and the forthcoming Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) known...
India’s digital rupee wallet providers will be expanded from banks to non-bank payment operators. During a monetary policy statement today, Reserve Bank of India Governor Shri Shaktikanta Das announced...
Reserve Bank of India has proposed allowing non-bank payment system operators (PSOs) to offer CBDC (Central Bank Digital Currency) wallets in order to make CBDC-R (Retail) more accessible to...
Global bank messaging network SWIFT is planning a new platform in the next one to two years to connect the wave of central bank digital currencies now in development...
The real-world assets platform, Gluwa, is exploring the potential to assist in the development and launch of Liberia’s central bank digital currency. To increase the likelihood of the digital...
The Philippines expects to put in place within the next two years a central bank digital currency (CBDC), taking its cue from peer regulators that have developed such digital...
The CBDC Retail (CBDC-R) pilot currently enables Person to Person (P2P) and Person to Merchant (P2M) transactions. It is now proposed to enable additional functionalities of programmability and offline...
In a new report by the Central Bank of Canada, entitled Central Bank Digital Currency and Banking Choices, quantifies the impact of a CBDC on banks in the deposit...
Currently, many CBDC technology projects seem to duplicate past work or conduct work without clear goals, even as key technology questions remain unanswered. How can central banks investigate CBDC...
Martin C W Walker In October 2020, the Bahamas launched its central bank digital currency (CBDC), called the “sand dollar”. The sand dollar project has been greatly praised, described by...