Japan’s International Payments System will test plastic cards for CBDC
Japan Credit Bureau will develop its CBDC infrastructure in collaboration with IDEMIA and Softspace.
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Japan Credit Bureau will develop its CBDC infrastructure in collaboration with IDEMIA and Softspace.
Financial authorities in Hong Kong have unveiled a prototype of the Chinese autonomous territory’s own central bank digital currency called Project Aurum. The two-tier platform features a wholesale interbank and…
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority and the BIS Innovation Hub cooperated on a unique CBDC design that reflects the realities of money issuing in the special administrative region.
Eswatini recently became the latest African country to jump on the central bank digital currency (CBDC) bandwagon after its central bank selected Giesecke Devrient, a Germany-based technology firm, as its…
Experts from an economic institute in China have circulated the idea of creating a blockchain-powered digital currency that could lower Asia’s reliance on the greenback. The initiative comes against the…
The U.S. and the world benefit from the primacy of the U.S. dollar in the world economy, but it is stablecoin, not a CBDC, that will enhance the fiat’s place,…
Spending with China’s state-issued digital currency has surpassed 100 billion yuan, close to $14 billion, by the end of August, the country’s monetary authority revealed. More than 5 million merchants…
The proposed distributed ledger technology-backed “Asian yuan” token would supposedly help reduce Asia’s dependence on the U.S. dollar for international business.
The largest CBDC pilot in the world is going to expand on citizen payments and cross-border operations with Hong Kong.
India's Reserve Bank outlined the pros and cons of a digital rupee as it looks to raise awareness around its CBDC project.