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Bank of England and BIS pilot building APIs for retail CBDC
Project Rosalind is an experiment exploring application programming interfaces (APIs) for retail central bank digital currency (CBDC). The project is...
Bank of England warns of systemic risk from crypto in the Metaverse
Cryptoassets could have important roles within the Metaverse – a decentralised, immersive next generation of the internet. Cryptoassets enable verifiable...
Group of influential Central banks explore what retail CBDC might look like
A group of seven central banks (Bank of Canada, Bank of England, Bank of Japan, European Central Bank, Federal Reserve,...
Bank of England set to allow access to FinTechs
The Bank of England has gone on record saying it will allow FinTech companies to store funds overnight in interest-bearing...
Main UK payment systems effectively privatised to one person
As of May 1st, there has been a new operator of the UK’s two most important retail payment schemes. New...
PSR: New Payment System Operator formed
The Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) and Bank of England (BoE) have announced that the Payment System Operator Delivery Group (PSODG)...
BoE allows UK’s non-bank PSPs to gain access to RTGS accounts
The Bank of England has extended direct access to Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) accounts to non-bank payment service providers...
UK payment systems represent systemic risk to financial stability – central bank consolidation underway
In a recent announcement, the UK’s Payment Systems Regulator and the Bank of England (BoE) agreed a framework for the...