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Bank of Canada, Central Bank of Hungary, Visa, Mastercard and Amazon involved

The pilot program will run through 2023 with the intent of demonstrating blockchain utility to the general public.

A pro-Bitcoin nonprofit says it will flag potential civil liberty concerns as more countries are expected to develop CBDC technology.

United States Treasury official Graham Steele told an audience at a Texas payments conference that a future central bank digital currency in America should consider anonymity.

The project, delayed from last year, will enlist bank employees and nearby businesses for the pilot. Each payment provider has launched its own app.

Address by Mr Harvesh Seegolam, Governor of the Bank of Mauritius, on the occasion of the G20/OECD Task Force on Financial Consumer Protection, Port Louis, 26 April 2023.

Keynote address by Mr Harvesh Seegolam, Governor of the Bank of Mauritius, at the International Monetary Fund/World Bank Community of Central Bank Technologists workshop on the theme of "The Future of Central Bank Money in a Digital World", Port Louis, 26 April 2023.

A round-up of news and salient issues that have affected central bankers in the past three months

Qatar has been told by the Financial Action Task Force to improve its “understanding of more complex forms” of financial crime.

The central bank released its statement in response to comments on a CBDC discussion paper published in February 2022.

With 11 megalopolises and three currencies, Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao make up a region that is ripe for central bank digital currency research.

Eric Horvitz penned a blog post lauding the transformative nature of AI on the same day he cosigned a document warning it could threaten humanity’s very existence.

Central bank says setting overall holding limits could raise privacy issues