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A round-up of news and salient issues that have affected central bankers in the past three months
Qatar has been told by the Financial Action Task Force to improve its “understanding of more complex forms” of financial crime.
The central bank released its statement in response to comments on a CBDC discussion paper published in February 2022.
With 11 megalopolises and three currencies, Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao make up a region that is ripe for central bank digital currency research.
Eric Horvitz penned a blog post lauding the transformative nature of AI on the same day he cosigned a document warning it could threaten humanity’s very existence.
Central bank says setting overall holding limits could raise privacy issues
Brian Armstrong has been hugely critical of the U.S. failure to provide the crypto industry with regulatory clarity and has long argued it will push firms offshore.
BIS and central banks discuss major policy issues that still need to be solved
With the end of the proofs-of-concept, the Bank of Japan has initiated its CBDC pilot and plans to gather more public and business feedback.
The European Central Bank exercise looked at a variety of use cases, most of which were quite satisfactory, as well as the use of self-custodied wallets.
Both national and global companies will participate in the upcoming pilot project of the Brazilian central bank digital currency.
The Bank for International Settlements has published the fifth paper by the group, highlighting its latest thinking on a potential retail CBDC.
Attorney Marta Belcher joins The Agenda podcast to unpack financial surveillance’s vast infrastructure and warn of the potential ramifications of central bank digital currencies.
System averaged 6.48 payments a second, with peak of 47 payments a second