12/6/2024 12:57:30 PM Bitcoin surges above $100,000 for the first time as Trump picks pro-crypto SEC chair By Cristobal de Atucha Bitcoin hit $100,000 for the first time late Wednesday, surging to a new record after President-elect Donald Trump unveiled...
3/3/2023 4:18:55 PM Brazilian Digital Real Passes Public Blockchain Pilot Test By Samantha Wulfson A tokenized version of the digital real is part of the Brazilian initiative for building a central bank digital currency that is...
7/30/2021 4:33:30 PM Estonia's central bank releases a report on their digital euro experiment By FinTech Collective Alongside the ECB, Estonia completed a research project on the potential for a digital euro. The experiment concluded that,...
7/23/2021 11:49:11 AM India eyeing phased roll out of Central Bank digital currency By Carlos Alonso Torras The Reserve Bank of India is considering a “phased introduction” of a central bank digital currency as it will need legal changes to be...
3/23/2021 2:23:14 PM Federal Reserve’s digital dollar push worries wall street By Sarah Wolter As soon as July, officials at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which have been...
2/5/2021 3:08:56 PM New joint venture between SWIFT, PBC fuels speculation over pursuit of globalizing China’s digital currency By Sarah Wolter The joint venture could serve as a conduit for broadening the use of the PBC's digital currency, officially called Digital Currency...
12/3/2020 6:17:53 PM Sber partners with JP Morgan to pilot digital currency in 2021 By Sarah Wolter Sber revealed its intentions around developing its own stablecoin back in August. But this is the first time JP Morgan – America’s...
11/30/2020 2:34:41 PM Facebook’s Libra currency to launch next year in limited format By Sarah Wolter First launched in June 2019, the scaling down of Libra’s vision comes as it has received a skeptical reception from global regulators,...
11/12/2020 12:16:47 AM China Construction Bank to issue offshore bond based on blockchain By Sarah Wolter The deal, which aims to raise up to $3b in total, will allow investors to buy digital tokens that are backed by deposits at the bank’s...
11/9/2020 9:21:54 PM Hong Kong and China pair up on digital currency experiment By Sarah Wolter The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) is working with the Thai and Chinese central banks on using digital currencies for cross-border...
11/4/2020 5:54:47 PM Australia’s central bank announces CBDC project with ConsenSys By Sarah Wolter As part of the research, the RBA wants to develop a proof-of-concept (POC) for the issuance of a tokenised CBDC for “wholesale market...
10/20/2020 9:05:41 PM Does a digital euro challenge the dollar’s global dominance? By Sarah Wolter The thing we found most interesting about the paper was that, if a digital euro indeed does happen, the ECB seems to have something in...
10/14/2020 4:12:58 PM IMF, World Bank, G20 countries to create central Bank digital currency rules By Sarah Wolter According to the report, by the end of 2022 the G20 members, the IMF, the World Bank and the BIS will have completed regulatory...
9/24/2020 12:00:00 AM ECB's Christine Lagarde pushes for digital Euro By Sarah Wolter The idea of an official digital coin has been touted by several countries and companies worldwide as of late, particularly as the...
9/9/2020 11:51:39 PM Mastercard launches digital currency kit for central banks By Sarah Wolter Mastercard's platform—or "sandbox" in tech parlance—will let central banks issue digital versions of their currency in a controlled...
8/25/2020 1:00:26 PM China trials digital Yuan in retail settings By Sarah Wolter A new working paper from the Bank of International Settlements shows that the pandemic has led to increased interest among central banks...