News

“We have a vision to transform The Bahamas into the leading digital assets hub in the Caribbean,” said Philip Davis, prime minister of the Bahamas.

Speech (virtual) by Ms Victoria Cleland, Executive Director for Banking, Payments and Innovation of the Bank of England, at the Central Bank Spring Meetings, 31 March 2022.

Steven Kamin says CBDCs may be particularly beneficial to emerging market economies

Speech (virtual) by Mr Haruhiko Kuroda, Governor of the Bank of Japan, at the FIN/SUM 2022, Tokyo, 29 March 2022.

Op-ed by Mr Agustín Carstens, General Manager of the BIS, and H.M. Queen Máxima of the Netherlands, the United Nations Secretary-General's Special Advocate for Inclusive Finance for Development, published by Project Syndicate, 18 April 2022.

Less than two weeks after the consultation process’ start, the prevalent mood in the comments section appears quite negative.

Ripple rejoices, the SEC gets challenged to a narrative battle and Brazil moves ahead with crypto legislation.

Paolo Ardoino, chief technology officer, of Tether and Bitfinex, explains why USDT will retain its dominance in an increasingly competitive stablecoin market.

From fiat banknotes to fractional reserve banking, the notion of what constitutes money in the U.S. has changed over time. But is the time right for e-cash?

The Bank of Japan’s executive director announced that the eagerly-awaited digital yen won’t be used to attain negative interest rates.

Papers in this volume were prepared for a meeting of emerging market Deputy Governors organised by the Bank for International Settlements on 9–10 February 2022.

Russia should deploy cryptocurrencies and CBDCs for settlement and payments with Africa, the president of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry believes.

Japanese people will ultimately decide whether they want a digital currency, executive director says

The prototype aims to examine the ability of US clearing and settlement infrastructure to support the US central bank digital currency using a DLT platform.

The sovereign national digital currency will be based on the national fiat and would have a fixed supply quite similar to Bitcoin.