Izabella Kaminska The Bank of England and His Majesty’s Treasury announced a joint consultationinto the feasibility of issuing a digital pound this week. The move followed in the footsteps...
The Bank of the Lao PDR Payment Systems Department and SORAMITSU Co., Ltd. have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to launch a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) Proof...
In 2022 significant progress was made on Project Rosalind Phase 1, which focused on developing an experimental open API platform for retail CBDC. This development work is expected to...
As reported in CoinDesk on Nov. 6 and in a Barclays note on Dec. 7, Circle is shifting many of the assets backing its USDC stablecoin from direct holdings...
The International Telecommunication Union is organizing the second edition of the “DC3 Conference – From Cryptocurrencies to Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs)” scheduled to take place place virtually from 24 – 27 January 2023. The DC3 Conference is being organised as...
Nigeria is capping cash withdrawals in order to drive adoption of its CBDC the eNaira—but will people embrace the central bank’s vision? Nigeria’s push to adopt digital currency and...
Just this Wednesday Sam Callahan appeared in Preston Pysh podcast. He did research around many CBDCs projects popping up here and there and his conversation with Preston has many...
The Central Bank of Nigeria is targeting a stronger digital economy to support the growth of the financial systems according to Punch. This is even as the digital currency,...
According to Iran Chamber of Commerce, Central Bank of Iran (CBI) said it will begin the pilot launch of crypto-rial as the bank’s digital currency . The CBI has...
The European Central Bank (ECB) will collaborate with five companies to develop potential user interfaces for the digital euro. The aim of this prototyping exercise is to test how...