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 Financial Stability Board (FSB) today published its global regulatory framework for crypto-asset activities to promote the comprehensiveness and international consistency of regulatory and supervisory approaches. Final recommendations incorporate...
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...
Findings on the impacts of microcredit continue to evolve. Early evidence from randomized evaluations in low- and middle-income countries showed that the classic microcredit model did not lead to...
This report reviews the key elements of the crypto ecosystem and assesses their structural flaws. There are three main takeaways. First, due to underlying economic incentives, the crypto ecosystem...
2023 so far has been a year of recovery for cryptocurrency after a chaotic 2022, with prices of digital assets like Bitcoin up over 80% on the year as...
In Rwanda, electronic tax filing and tax payment systems have been mandatory since 2015 as part of the government’s national strategy to digitalise the economy. The government has also...
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...