The Reserve Bank of Australia has wrapped up its CBDC pilot program and outlined four key areas that could be improved by the introduction of central bank-issued digital currency. Australia’s central ...

More than 80% of central banks are interested in launching a central bank digital currency (CBDC) or have already done so, according to research conducted by accounting firm PwC. The second annual ...

CBDCs and fiat-backed stablecoins may look alike, but they differ in issuer, legal status, risk, and monetary control.

The U.S. Department of the Treasury has released comments from Undersecretary for Domestic Finance Nellie Liang on the “Next Steps to the Future of Money and Payments,” addressing CBDCs and the ...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--With more than 90% of countries exploring, developing and implementing Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) as a way to increase financial inclusion and lower the ...

The Y2K bug never melted the global grid, yet the panic-buying of flashlights and canned beans in the last months of 1999 was very real. Today, central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) could be playing ...

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has completed the first phase of its central bank digital currency (CBDC) project, according to a report on Monday. This stage of Project Orchid explored the ...

Bitcoin will not kill the U.S. dollar. It will become the U.S. dollar, with all controls and restrictions that any CBDC issuer could dream of. “Impossible!” I hear you crying out, giggling to myself ...

There has been a lot of initial excitement surrounding the possibility of a digital dollar – a government-issued, central bank digital currency (CBDC). The enthusiasm is primarily due to certain ...

KakaoBank is preparing to enter South Korea’s fast-growing stablecoin sector, according to local reports. In its first-half earnings call on Tuesday, KakaoBank CFO Kwon Tae-hoon said the firm is ...