In a March 7 hearing of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee (“Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the Congress”), Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell offered...
The South Korean central bank (BOK) has published its 2022 Payment and Settlement Systems Report. Oversight of the systems was carried out successfully, the...
Samsung and BOK collaborate on CBDC research, exploring offline digital payment solutions. The partnership aims to ensure offline CBDC payments, even in disaster...
What all of that research has revealed is … complicated. There are legitimate risks associated with CBDCs, and theoretical impacts that could reshape the...
Former presidential candidate and political commentator Tulsi Gabbard is taking a stand against the Biden administration’s plans to develop a Central Bank Digital...
Executive Summary: According to the Atlantic Council’s Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) tracker, 114 countries are exploring a CBDC. Among them, 39 countries are...
Japanese financial software firm Soramitsu has announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding with the Bank of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic Payment...
Despite Japan’s uncertainty on whether to issue a central bank digital currency (CBDC), the Bank of Japan (BoJ) continues experimenting with a potential digital...
Although the Bank of Canada still has no plans to issue a Central Bank Digital Currency, it has accelerated its research on such a project. (Read More)