News Taiwan Not to Rush Launching CBDC Amid Active Growth of Local Crypto Market Taiwan continues to develop its central bank digital currency (CBDC), focusing on improving the operational efficiency of the asset rather than the speed of its deployment. At the same time,… 2 hours ago (upd. 08.07.2024) #CBDC #News
News Bahamas’ Commercial Banks to Be Required to Maintain and Distribute CBDCs The Central Bank of The Bahamas (CBB) is initiating legislative measures that will require local commercial banks to support and promote the central bank digital currency (CBDC). Four years after… 6 days ago (upd. 02.07.2024) #CBDC #News
News France and Hong Kong to Explore Tokenization and Cross-Border Payments with CBDC Banque de France (BDF) and the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) announced a collaboration in the field of wholesale central bank digital currencies (wCBDC) and asset tokenization. The joint research… 1 week ago (upd. 01.07.2024) #CBDC #News #Token
News European Central Bank Expands Testing of Financial DLT System The ECB launches the second phase of testing a financial system based on distributed ledger technology (DLT). A range of major financial institutions will participate in the trials. The European… 2 weeks ago (upd. 25.06.2024) #CBDC #Finance #News
News ECB Assures Citizens Regarding Privacy of Future CBDC The European Central Bank (ECB) reports that the developing digital euro (CBDC) will ensure a high level of security for users’ personal financial data and protection against tracking individual transactions…. 2 weeks ago (upd. 25.06.2024) #CBDC #News
News Digital Rial Becomes Available in Iran’s Free Economic Zone Iranian authorities are expanding the pilot project of the central bank digital currency (CBDC) with the digital rial becoming available in the Kish Island free economic zone. The Central Bank… 3 weeks ago (upd. 20.06.2024) #CBDC #News
News Ethiopia Creates Legal Framework for CBDCs The National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE) prepared several pieces of legislation, including the establishment of a legal framework for introducing a central bank digital currency (CBDC). The National Bank of… 3 weeks ago (upd. 18.06.2024) #CBDC #News #Regulation
News Private Companies to Join Testing of International CBDC System The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) is advancing to the testing phase of the minimum viable product (MVP) as part of Project mBridge, an international central bank digital currency (CBDC)… 1 month ago (upd. 06.06.2024) #CBDC #News
News Half of Germans Ready to Use Digital Euro Around 50% of Germans are ready to use the digital euro, although most of them have never heard of it and don’t know what it is. Only 17% of Germans… 1 month ago (upd. 05.06.2024) #CBDC #News
News Qatar Launches CBDC Pilot Project Qatar Central Bank (QCB) finalized the infrastructure development for a central bank digital currency (CBDC) and launched the first pilot test phase where the digital Qatari riyal will be tested… 1 month ago (upd. 04.06.2024) #CBDC #News