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China might lead the charge into the digital economy, but will being the first major economy to launch a CBDC be enough to win global reserve currency status?

A leaked European Union legislative draft on digital assets reveals the country's plans for cryptocurrency trading and issuance across the nation.

Policy-makers think changes in payment behaviour will be temporary and CBDC research will take time

The Central Bank of The Bahamas is planning to launch a national cryptocurrency across its entire archipelago next month.

Societe Generale-Forge has selected the Tezos blockchain for its central bank digital currency (CBDC) experiment with the French central bank.

Will Alipay and WeChat Pay survive the People's Bank Of China's rollout of the digital yuan or DCEP?

The Bahamas Central Bank has announced its CBDC, dubbed Sand Dollars, will be ready by next month for roll out.

The digital renminbi is legally compensatory to China’s fiat currency.

The wait for CBDCs continue.

Cypherium, the creator of cross-chain interoperability solution for central bank digital currencies, to raise funds via new token sale.

Christine Lagarde, President of ECB, says lack of payments integration in Europe has led to foreign providers taking the lead.

Speech by Mr François Villeroy de Galhau, Governor of the Bank of France, at the Bundesbank virtual autumn conference "Banking and Payments in the digital world", Frankfurt am Main, 11 September 2020.

COVID-19 has led to an acceleration in digital payments adoption and technological innovation, as seen by the spending pattern of European citizens.

Have you ever wondered which countries are working on Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) and where they stand in the process? Are they simply doing research or is there a pilot program in the works? Or maybe there is a digital currency live and in

The long-awaited study and research findings from the European Central Bank (ECB) over a potential Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), the digital euro, will be revealed in the coming weeks, says ECB President Christine Lagrade. As reported by Reuters, the ECB will present the advantages and disadvantages of rolling out a digital euro and launch a consultation thereafter.