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Ukraine’s newly signed law On Payment Services requires close cooperation between the National Bank of Ukraine and private startups in the payment market.
The fund will greatly expand to cover all aspects of digital currency while also working with related financial institutions.
A recent testimony by Julia Friedlander to Congress has revealed that more countries are exploring CBDCs, however, the US is lagging behind.
Rich Checkan described CBDCs as the spawn of Satan and thinks that Bitcoin is still a speculative asset and not a currency alternative yet.
A new survey of 3,000 Russians suggested that most people strongly disagree with receiving salary payouts in a state-controlled digital currency.
Test processed 300,000 payments simultaneously; carbon footprint smaller than current card payments
Central bank is still researching underlying technology and design features, says T Rabi Sankar
Consumers are warming to the concept of Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC), research from European deep tech company Guardtime shows. Guardtime surveyed people in 10 countries and found 64 per cent of people would likely use a CBDC launched in their country, with 33 per
The inaugural 2021 Independent Reserve Cryptocurrency Index is based on a poll of 1,000 Singaporeans from a representative background of gender, age and location.
Governments around the world are pouring more resources into CBDC research and exploratory use cases. Among the major economies, China appears to be pulling ahead and has plans to implement digital yuan usage during the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) officially announced to pilot its central bank digital currency programme on the Hyperledger Fabric blockchain on October 1.
The Central Bank of Nigeria will start the pilot of its central bank digital currency, which runs on the Hyperledger Fabric blockchain, on Oct. 1.
Next week, the House Committee on Financial Services will hold a hearing on Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs). This is not the first Congressional hearing on CBDCs, nor will it be the last. The concept of a digital dollar, issued by a central bank, is
RBI is looking for ways to test a CBDC while causing little to no disruption for the bank’s status quo.
China's central bank digital currency can now be used on insurance policies that offer various levels of compensation for diagnosis of or death due to COVID-19.