In recent years, interest in central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) has been rising across the globe. Even though only a few central banks have implemented a...
Results from the 2021 Bank of International Settlements (BIS) survey on Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) show that 9 out of 10 central banks are exploring...
Russia officially confirmed that it hopes to have a “digital” rouble ready for international payments by next year and that it also wants to extend the...
According to the Bank of Japan‘s direction on digital yen research, it will investigate the design challenges of a central bank digital currency (CBDC) in small...
China’s digital yuan has been designed for retail transactions rather than to replace the US dollar system, revealed Zhou Xiaochuan, President of the China Society for...
Xinhua News Agency’s affiliate newspaper, Economic Information Daily, Thursday published an op-ed suggesting measures for the further adoption of the digital yuan.
One of the largest financial service provider in the U.S., Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), is working on a project titled- “Project Lithium”, to explore...
China’s central bank, The People’s Bank of China (PBOC), disclosed that it will be amplifying its trial for digital yuan (CBDC) to more areas, including cities...
Kazushige Kamiyama, the head of the Bank Of Japan’s (BOJ) payment and settlement systems department, has appealed to the G7 policymakers to ramp up the creation...
The Bank of Japan has stated that it has no plans to issue its own digital currency but will prepare “thoroughly” to respond to changing circumstances...