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The Japanese central bank plans to make a decision on whether to issue a digital currency by 2026.

Speech by Mr Pablo Hernández de Cos, Governor of the Bank of Spain, at the 20th Anniversary Conference of the BIS Representative Office for the Americas, Mexico City, 20 November 2022.

The RBI is planning to test the "digital rupee" in retail. Within a month, the pilot will debut. Digital rupees will augment the present payment system, not replace it. Each bank testing CBDC will

Speech by Mr Yannis Stournaras, Governor of the Bank of Greece, at the 2022 Conference of Mediterranean Central Banks "Building resilience in uncertain times: safeguarding financial stability, encouraging investments", jointly organised by the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the European Institute of the Mediterranean (IEMed) and the Bank of Spain, Istanbul, 31 October 2022.

The digital rupee is intended as a supplement to the current payment system and not its replacement.

The founder of FTX provoked the withdrawal of his legal team and now faces the possibility of extradition to the United States.

The discussion paper reviews the literature on the impact of CBDCs in large, developed economies and draws some conclusions and specific design elements.

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Speech by Mr Burkhard Balz, Member of the Executive Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank, at the Bitkom Digital Euro Summit, virtual event, 15 November 2022.

Banking giants including BNY Mellon, Citi, U.S. Bank and Wells Fargo will be issuing tokens and settling transactions through simulated central bank reserves as part of the pilot.

Project Aurum with HKMA also explored a token model

A joint effort is aimed at assessing the possible use of wholesale central bank digital currencies in cross-border transactions.

The New York Fed and Singapore's MAS are collaborating on CBDC development

Tests by NY Fed and BIS settles FX spot trades in less than 15 seconds