The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) recently revealed research data on the issuance of Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), which found that only 10% of central banks around the world…
The Inthanon-LionRock Fintech project between the Bank of Thailand (BOT), Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA), and ten commercial banks began their cooperation in May, last year. The project is a…
Bank of International Settlements (BIS), a collaboration
between central banks from Canada, Sweden, Switzerland, Japan, EU, and the UK,
has announced the joint effort to study the feasibility and merits of Central
Bank…
December 2019 saw Christine Lagarde, President of the European Central Bank (ECB), chairing her first ECB conference after she stepped into the position last November. At her first address, she…
Updates on China’s upcoming and much-anticipated central bank digital currency (CBDC) have been few and far between since the People’s Bank of China’s (PBoC) announcement on the possible digital currency…
Sweden has been exploring the potential benefits of issuing a digital central bank currency (CBDC) since 2017 and its central bank Riksbank recently reported that it would sign a deal…
Discussions on a ‘Eurocoin’ has taken precedence over many meetings within the European Union (EU) and its financial counterpart, the European Central Bank (ECB). President Christine Lagarde, newly appointed in…
The central bank of France has indicated plans to pilot a central bank digital currency (CBDC) for financial institutions in 2020. The governor of the Bank of France, Francois Villeroy…
On Tuesday during Ghana’s Annual Banking Conference, Ernest Addison, governor of Ghana’s central bank, shared that a pilot project in rolling out Ghana’s very own Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC)…
The United States Federal Reserve is exploring the opportunity to develop a US dollar digital currency, reported Cointelegraph. Issues and risks of rolling out a central bank digital currency will…