Consumer tech giant, Samsung is looking into launching a central bank digital currency in a collaboration with the Bank of Korea. The South Korean electronics firm has said on...
Earlier this month, Jamaican Senator Aubyn Hill announced the creation of a “digital marketplace” for e-commerce to enable consumers to pay with the country’s central bank digital currency (CBDC),...
Zimbabwe is debuting a gold-backed digital currency as it battles an inflation crisis. The country’s central bank says the tokens — set to launch Monday (May 8) — will...
China is to start paying the salaries of some civil servants and public officials using its central bank digital currency (CBDC), it was reported today. The current take up...
Sweden’s central bank, Riksbank, has published a report on the results of the third phase of its central bank digital currency (CBDC) experiments, focusing on governance and programmability issues....
The M-PESA CEO, Sitoyo Lopokoiyit, has revealed that the mobile money giant will be looking to cooperate with the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) in its journey of rolling...
The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) will soon launch a new payment service called PayShap to accelerate the country’s shift to a cashless society. The rapid payment programme (RPP)...
A legislative proposal from Florida Gov. (and possible Republican U.S. presidential candidate) Ron DeSantis would prohibit the use of a national central bank digital currency (CBDC) as money within...
BOSTON – March 12, 2023 – Following the joint announcement by U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and U.S. prudential regulators, all depositors with Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank,...
A tokenized version of the digital real, the Brazilian central bank digital currency (CBDC), has passed a public blockchain pilot test successfully. The test, which was carried out by...