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BIS Conference Addresses Cybersecurity in Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC)

Agustín Carstens, General Manager of the Bank for International Settlements, highlighted the importance of cybersecurity for central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) during a conference in Basel, Sw

Nov 9, 2023blockchainnews
BIS general manager urges central banks to “lead innovation” for CBDCs

Agustín Carstens called CBDCs the “central element” of central bank leadership in innovation.

Nov 8, 2023cointelegraph
Jury finds SBF guilty on all charges, sentencing set for March 2024: Law Decoded

Bankman-Fried’s crimes each carry a maximum sentence of five to 20 years in prison.

Nov 6, 2023cointelegraphHelvetia
Ripple to power Georgia’s central bank digital currency, the digital Lari

The National Bank of Georgia will use the CBDC platform to assess Digital Lari's benefits for the government, businesses, and retail users.

Nov 3, 2023cointelegraphDigital Peso
SNB to launch live wCBDC pilot in December

ECB’s wholesale digital euro exploratory work will start in 2024

Nov 3, 2023centralbanking
Digital yuan used to settle crude oil trade

Chinese oil company Petro China reportedly bought one million barrels of crude oil in digital yuan

Nov 3, 2023centralbankinge-CNY
Swiss wholesale CBDC pilot kicks off in alliance with central, commercial banks

The Swiss wCBDC pilot project will be hosted on SDX and use the infrastructure of Swiss Interbank Clearing.

Nov 2, 2023cointelegraphHelvetia
Survey: 65% of Spaniards aren’t interested in using digital euro

The country’s population doesn’t demonstrate as high a confidence level in the European Central Bank’s digital currency project as the government does, according to the survey.

Nov 1, 2023cointelegraphDigital Euro
Kenya to introduce digital IDs for citizens by year-end

The Kenyan government plans to roll out its digital identification system in December 2023 after the testing period, which will take the next few months.

Oct 31, 2023cointelegraph
Bénédicte Nolens on the latest mBridge developments

The head of the Bank for International Settlements’ Hong Kong Centre speaks about cross-border CBDC governance, ongoing FX challenges and evolving technology

Oct 31, 2023centralbankingmBridge
Project mBridge reveals details of its workings ahead of MVP, commercial debut

Project mBridge has put together a slick publication with lots of new information to let the world know what the hottest project in CBDC is.

Oct 31, 2023cointelegraphmBridge
Hong Kong advances CBDC pilot, bringing e-HKD trials to Phase 2

e-HKD Phase 1 trial was dedicated to full-fledged payments, programmable payments, offline payments, tokenized deposits, settlement of Web3 transactions and settlement of tokenized assets.

Oct 31, 2023cointelegraphmBridge
BIS releases guide to tackle ‘complex’ offline CBDC design

Trade-offs include privacy and security to meet jurisdiction-specific objectives

Oct 30, 2023centralbanking
Fed, BOE officials share continuing interest in CBDCs, stablecoin regulation

Sir Jon Cunliffe looks at payment solutions of the past and future in his last speech as deputy governor of the BOE.

Oct 27, 2023cointelegraphProject Hamilton
Turkey plans to craft crypto framework in 2024

Crypto asset providers, such as crypto exchanges, will also be given a legal definition.

Oct 27, 2023cointelegraphDigital Lira