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Filtered by CBDC — 145 articles

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

21 Dec. 2022

5 min read

CBDC Round-Up

The Swiss Innovation Hub of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has started project Tourbillon, which will explore how to improve cyber resiliency, scalability and privacy.

CBDC

John Winchcombe

6 Dec. 2022

5 min read

G+D’s Journey to CBDCs

Tanja Heßdörfer was interviewed at the CBDC conference in August for this article. Tanja is Head of Sales and Business Development, Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC)s, at Giesecke+Devrient (G+D).

CBDC

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.

CBDC Digital CN Free Free

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.

CBDC Digital CN Events

John Winchcombe

2 Oct. 2022

5 min read

CBDC Round-Up

Working paper 2713 from the ECB suggests policy interest in retail CBDCs has been driven by the decline in cash use and the rapid increase in digital payment types and use, challenging the status quo.

CBDC Digital CN

John Winchcombe

31 July 2022

5 min read

CBDC Updates

Taiwan has said that it has completed trials of its prototype retail CBDC in technical simulations. This was concluded three months early. Electronic payments have risen from 40% in 2017 to 60% in the first quarter of 2022.

CBDC Digital CN

John Winchcombe

3 July 2022

1 min read

CBDC Conference Agenda Announced

The CBDC conference has now posted its 2022 agenda online. More information about the conference can be found at www.cbdc-conference.com.

CBDC Digital CN Events

John Winchcombe

3 July 2022

5 min read

CBDC Round Up

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) Hong Kong Innovation Hub will start Project Selah in the third quarter of 2022. The project sees the Hong Kong Monetary Authority and the Bank of Israel working together, with the BIS, to test a two-tier system.

CBDC Digital CN Free Free

John Winchcombe

7 June 2022

4 min read

CBDC Round Up

At a BIS event, the Central Bank of Chile announced that it is delaying its planned digital roll out to undertake further work on the benefits and risks.

CBDC Digital CN

John Winchcombe

1 May 2022

5 min read

CBDC Roundup

The Electronic Currency and Secure Hardware Act (ECASH) has been introduced in the US Congress by Stephen Lynch, a Massachusetts Democrat and chair of the House Task Force on Financial Technology. The bill directs the US Treasury Department to conduct a pilot program for a version of digital dollars that work just like cash in that they would be stored on hardware, not in bank accounts.

CBDC

John Winchcombe

20 April 2022

8 min read

CBDCs in Emerging Market Economies

In preparation for a meeting of emerging market economy Deputy Governors organised by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), the BIS surveyed 26 central banks and received papers relating to their CBDC work from 24 of them.

CBDC Digital CN

John Winchcombe

30 March 2022

3 min read

Inaugural Digital Currency Conference

The Digital Currency Conference (DCC) took place in person immediately after the Banknote & Currency Conference in February. The agenda raced through a wide range of topics, including quantum computing, achieving privacy with CBDCs, the Digital Dollar Project, and digital currencies.

CBDC Events

John Winchcombe

29 March 2022

5 min read

Digital Currency Round-Up

The Deputy Governor of the Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) has said it is on track to launch its CBDC in the first quarter of 2022, having completed the pilot in December 2021. At the moment, it is working to increase the number of commercial banks capable and ready to open accounts for CBDC users.

CBDC

John Winchcombe

22 Feb. 2022

1 min read

CBDC Conference 2022

The CBDC Conference will take place in Frankfurt 29-31 August 2022. Registration is open and there is a super saver 25% discount rate for those who register by 30 April – www.cbdc-conference.com.

CBDC Events

John Winchcombe

22 Feb. 2022

4 min read

CBDC Round-Up

The Beijing Winter Olympics has seen a third payment option be used at an Olympic Games for the first time since 1986 (when Visa got became the exclusive payment service provider alongside cash).

CBDC

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Increasing CBDC Monetary Policy Impact

MAS Investigates Retail CBDCs

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G+D’s Journey to CBDCs

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CBDCs: An Insurance Policy or a Necessity?

CBDC Round-Up

CBDC Updates

CBDC Conference Agenda Announced

CBDC Round Up

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CBDCs in Emerging Market Economies

Inaugural Digital Currency Conference

Digital Currency Round-Up

CBDC Conference 2022

CBDC Round-Up

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