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The Hong Kong Institute of Bankers has reportedly onboarded six digital banking institutions as corporate members.
Jens Weidmann, President of Germany's central bank (Bundesbank) and a governing councilor at the European Central Bank (ECB), told Handelsblatt this week that much needs to be understood before central banks should get into issuing a digital currency like Facebook's Libra or Bitcoin, commonly referred
Separating CBDC functions between tiers could disincentivise use during crisis periods
Pilot will be rolled out to rest of country after June 2020, says governor Rolle
Proof of concept blends anonymity with AML/CFT regulation
The U.S. could possibly lose the digital war to China if it doesn’t issue a digital dollar ahead of the digital yuan.
What are the key advantages and disadvantages of CBDCs?
Cointelegraph reached out to leaders of the crypto and blockchain space to find out what their New Year’s wish was for the industry.
South Korea's central bank plans to organize a task force dedicated to central bank digital currency research in the new year.
Russia's Central Bank is reportedly testing several stablecoins, head of reserve bank Elvira Nabiullina confirms.
The Central Bank of the Bahamas is planning to pilot a digital version of the Bahamian dollar in the Exuma district starting December 27.
Updates on China’s upcoming and much-anticipated central bank digital currency (CBDC) have been few and far between since the People’s Bank of China’s (PBoC) announcement on the possible digital currency in August this year. Mu Changchun, head of the PBoC’s digital currency research arm, has now emerged to reveal more details about the CBDC.
The digital yuan will be different from Bitcoin and stablecoins, says People's Bank of China deputy director.
China’s latest bond issuance on the ledger is a sign of trust placed into the blockchain technology, but not everything may be rosy.
For many reasons, China is regarded as one of the world's make-or-break regions when it comes to the fate of 'blockchain' technology and cryptocurrencies. Before Bitcoin trading was officially banned in China in late 2016, yuan-to-Bitcoin conversions (and vice versa) seemed to account for more