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Bank of China mandates digital yuan integration for retail scenarios
In a significant development, according to Changchun Mu, director of the People’s Bank of China’s Digital Currency Research Institute, China’s...
Digital yuan CBDC transaction smash $250 billion mark
China’s digital yuan transactions reached 1.8 trillion yuan ($250 billion) at end Q2 2023, announced Yi Gang, Governor, People’s Bank...
The government scandal at the heart of central bank digital currency
In a recent article written for the FT by former Bank of England economist Andy Haldane, I was struck by...
Global survey shows limited understanding of CBDC
A global survey on Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC) released by the CFA Institute, the global association of investment professionals,...
Results of the 2022 BIS survey on central bank digital currencies
A new report from BIS presents the results of a survey of 86 central banks conducted in late 2022 about...
Swiss banks collaborate to explore digital Swiss franc CBDC
Coordinated by the Swiss Bankers Association, a group of have launched a project aimed at introducing a digital Swiss franc...
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...
UK and EU part ways (again) and diverge on CBDCs
Recent thinking published by HM Treasury and the European Central Bank show divergence between the UK and European Union (EU)...