The Digital Dollar Project says a pilot carried out with Western Union into the use of CBDCs for cross-border remittances has found a host of potential benefits. The Digital...
Mastercard, a specialist in payment solutions, has announced Fluency as its CBDC partner, with an aim to capitalise on the growing interest in central bank digital currencies. Fluency’s expertise...
Paris, 21 July 202 The Banque de France shares lessons from its wholesale CBDC experiments using distributed ledger technologies (DLTs).Following the publication of an initial report in 20211 ,...
The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has signed a FinTech collaboration agreement with the Central Bank of Egypt. This announcement was disclosed via the official Twitter handle of the...
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has upgraded the eNaira by introducing a chip-enabled Near Field Communication (NFC) device into the eNaira. The NFC feature will enhance the use...
The European Central Bank (ECB) published today the findings of its commissioned research on citizens’ payment habits and their attitudes towards digital payments in order to gain a deeper...
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority is entering a new phase of experimentation with the digital Hong Kong dollar, but is yet to determine if the state should provide digital...
While the Reserve Bank of India considers cryptocurrencies “speculative”, the regulator is willing to have an “informed debate” on digital tokens, according to Deputy Governor T Rabi Sankar. “If...
The Swiss National Bank (SNB) is set to launch a wholesale central bank digital currency (CBDC) pilot supported by the country’s SIX digital exchange. While attending the Point Zero...
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has on Wednesday published a whitepaper proposing a common protocol to specify conditions for the use of digital money. The regulator said in...