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John Winchcombe

29 Aug. 2023

5 min read

CBDC Round-Up

Laos has trialled a digital currency, the Digital Lao Kip, working with Soramitsu, a Japanese fintech company.

CBDC Digital CN

John Winchcombe

30 July 2023

5 min read

CBDC Round-Up

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has surveyed 86 central banks and found over half are conducting concrete experiments or piloting CBDCs.

CBDC Digital CN

John Winchcombe

30 July 2023

4 min read

Expanding the Use of China’s e-CNY

China’s digital currency, the e-CNY, is the world’s largest, longest running and most ambitious Central Bank Digital Currency pilot. Its scale and ambition are huge, as shown by the Governor of the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) who, speaking at a Monetary Authority of Singapore conference, revealed that the e-CNY has had over $250 billion in transactions in its first 18 months since launch.

Digital CN

John Winchcombe

29 June 2023

3 min read

The Metaverse: a New Frontier Needing Exploration

The media rejoices in either claiming the metaverse is dead in the water or that it is booming. Wherever it falls, payments are made in the metaverse, it is a global marketplace and there is the opportunity to do things differently.

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John Winchcombe

25 June 2023

4 min read

Delivering Offline Capability

The Bank for International Settlements has published ‘A Handbook for Offline Payments with Central Bank Digital Currencies’.

Digital CN

John Winchcombe

25 June 2023

2 min read

A2A Payments Make Progress

Account-to-account payments (A2A) have been talked about for some time. There is some evidence that they are beginning to fulfil their promise. The latest 2023 Worldpay Global Payments Report from FIS says there are now 64 real-time payment schemes in operation providing high-speed payment rails for A2A payments.

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John Winchcombe

25 June 2023

4 min read

CBDC Round-Up

Bruegel, a Brussels based European think tank, has published a paper considering the value added by CBDC in the context of the euro area.

CBDC Digital CN

John Winchcombe

11 May 2023

5 min read

CBDC Round-Up

The European Central Bank (ECB) has issued a progress report on the digital euro. The ECB’s thinking is in development, with a final decision to be made at a future date. A notable element in the report is the work on how the digital euro may be made available and harmonised with existing payment systems.

CBDC Digital CN

John Winchcombe

11 May 2023

5 min read

IMF Praises India’s Digital Infrastructure

The IMF has issued a working paper ‘Stacking up the Benefits Lessons from India’s Digital Journey.’ In it, the IMF describes the achievement of India in creating a Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) that delivers significant benefits.

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John Winchcombe

23 April 2023

4 min read

Exploring the Innovative Potential of the E-Krona

The Riksbank has issued its phase 3 report on its work to understand how an e-krona might work. This phase investigated how the Riksbank could collaborate with existing payment service providers to allow access to the e-krona based on the existing collaborative approaches.

Country Profile Digital CN

John Winchcombe

26 March 2023

5 min read

CBDC News

Germany’s community bank group has argued that Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) should only be brought into circulation by commercial banks who should be ‘appropriately compensated’ for it.

CBDC Digital CN

John Winchcombe

24 March 2023

11 min read

WBS Lays Out a New Cash Future

The 2023 World Banknote Summit (WBS) took place in Antwerp and was structured around three key areas – the performance of cash in a crisis, the sustainability of cash and the future outlook of cash.

Digital CN Events Future of Cash

John Winchcombe

24 March 2023

2 min read

Coinbase Explains Stablecoins

The cryptocurrency exchange platform Coinbase has published a series of tweets giving its perspective on stablecoins, providing a good summary and insight about them.

Digital CN

John Winchcombe

23 Feb. 2023

5 min read

CBDC Round-Up

In a recent speech to the European Union Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, Fabio Panetta, European Central Bank board member, said the ECB is looking at a new digital euro app with a basic payment function and creating a standardised way of connecting end users to intermediaries.

CBDC Digital CN

John Winchcombe

31 Jan. 2023

5 min read

CBDC Round-Up

SICPA has entered into a strategic partnership with the INX Digital Company with the aim of helping governments develop innovative and sovereign Central Bank Digital Currency ecosystems.

CBDC Digital CN

John Winchcombe

31 Jan. 2023

5 min read

Increasing CBDC Monetary Policy Impact

An important CBDC topic is its impact on a central bank’s ability to implement monetary policy. A technical paper by the BIS examines the possible impact of paying interest on CBDCs, or enabling CBDCs to compete with other payment methods in terms of convenience.

CBDC Digital CN

John Winchcombe

28 Dec. 2022

5 min read

MAS Investigates Retail CBDCs

Until now the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has concentrated on wholesale Central Bank Digital Currencies (wCBDC), which are used with financial institutions.

CBDC Digital CN

John Winchcombe

6 Dec. 2022

5 min read

CBDC Round Up

The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) and the Digital Financial Cooperative Research Centre (DFCRC) have issued a white paper on CBDCs.

CBDC Digital CN

John Winchcombe

4 Nov. 2022

5 min read

CBDC Round Up

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) and Bank for International Settlements (BIS) Innovation Hub have been working on Project Aurum.

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John Winchcombe

3 Oct. 2022

6 min read

CBDCs: An Insurance Policy or a Necessity?

The Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) conference took place at the very end of August in Frankfurt, the first CBDC conference in person, reflecting just how new CBDCs are.

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Expanding the Use of China’s e-CNY

The Metaverse: a New Frontier Needing Exploration

Delivering Offline Capability

A2A Payments Make Progress

CBDC Round-Up

CBDC Round-Up

IMF Praises India’s Digital Infrastructure

Exploring the Innovative Potential of the E-Krona

CBDC News

WBS Lays Out a New Cash Future

Coinbase Explains Stablecoins

CBDC Round-Up

CBDC Round-Up

Increasing CBDC Monetary Policy Impact

MAS Investigates Retail CBDCs

CBDC Round Up

CBDC Round Up

CBDCs: An Insurance Policy or a Necessity?

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