The Bank of Jamaica (BoJ) has finished the development of its first central bank digital currency (CBDC), with a national launch planned for the first quarter...
India plans to introduce a new law regulating the industry this coming winter to ban most crypto assets. The agenda for the session lists “The Cryptocurrency...
The Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, urged democratic countries to draft a comprehensive regulatory framework for cryptocurrencies. Without them, the asset class could be used...
The HKMA has released a technical white paper on their future retail CBDC, which aims to explore the specifics of the Hong Kong electronic dollar. After...
Visa has published a whitepaper on Universal Payment Channels, a “hub-and-spoke” model for interoperability between different distributed ledger technologies. According to published papers, financial services company...
Bureaucracy exists in the traditional finance system – it’s an open secret. Unsurprisingly, the consequence of this bureaucracy is an inefficient finance sector where middlemen hold...
In a recent webinar, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) announced that it has set a clear date for the start of the CBDC pilot –...
The Central Bank of Korea will conduct a simulation experiment for digital currencies (CBDC) by the central bank in the second half of the year. Central...
The UK has joined the suite of countries looking to roll out a Central Bank Digital Currency, courtesy of the Bank of England. The Bank of...
In October 2020, the Bank of Japan published a CBDC paper outlining its plans to launch a CBDC. Earlier today, the Governor of the Bank of...
