Few financial topics have stirred more debate in recent years than the prospect of a government-issued digital currency. A ...

The US lawmaker’s bill comes just weeks after Rep. Tom Emmer reintroduced an identical bill in the lower chamber of Congress. US Senator Ted Cruz introduced a bill on March 26 to prohibit the Federal ...

India's central bank Governor Shaktikanta Das has said that while their retail central bank digital currency (CBDC) pilot has over 5 million users, there should not be in any rush to roll out a system ...

Cambodia became one of the first countries in the world to launch a central bank digital currency (CBDC) in October 2020. As adoption of Cambodia’s blockchain-based retail CBDC Project Bakong ...

More central banks than ever before are exploring a central bank digital currency (CBDC), according to a Bank for International Settlements (BIS) survey published Friday. Among the 86 banks that ...

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With the increasing adoption of cryptocurrencies and other digital assets globally, central banks have acknowledged the demand for an alternative to traditional fiat and central bank money. Central ...

During the last decade, an increasing number of central banks launched research and carried out several pilot programs on developing and introducing a central bank digital currency (CBDC), a digital ...

How could practitioners assess the domestic financial stability implications of retail CBDC? This chapter identifies six key transmission channels through which CBDC can affect financial ...

This content has been selected, created and edited by the Finextra editorial team based upon its relevance and interest to our community. CBDC (central bank digital currency) is a form of digital ...

This content has been selected, created and edited by the Finextra editorial team based upon its relevance and interest to our community. The European Central Bank (ECB) has been working on developing ...