10/30/2023 3:57:34 PM World Bank rolls out first digital bond issuance on Euroclear By FinTech Collective The World Bank said it has raised $105 million through a three-year digital bond to finance its sustainable development initiatives. The...
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...
6/19/2020 12:25:21 PM Cambridge, World Bank and World Economic Forum launch survey to assess COVID impact on fintech By Carlos Alonso Torras Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance, alongside the World Bank and World Economic Forum, launches survey to assess impact of COVID-19...
4/22/2020 2:04:46 AM World Bank’s pandemic bond gets a black eye amid wave of COVID relief bonds By Carlos Alonso Torras With more than 2 million cases reported globally and 130,000 deaths, bond payoffs had yet not been triggered. The missing criteria,...
2/13/2020 10:53:56 PM Coronavirus strikes World Bank’s 2017 catastrophe bonds By Faisal Kawar The World Bank launched a $320m catastrophe bond issue in 2017 to back its Pandemic Emergency Financing Facility. Originally scheduled to...