Before returning to office, President Donald Trump promised to outlaw central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). But Timothy Massad, former chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), told CoinDesk...
Is South Korea prioritizing central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) over stablecoins? As CoinDesk notes in a report Tuesday (April 21), the new governor of the country’s central...
India’s central bank has reportedly proposed that BRICS countries link their digital currencies. The goal here is to ease cross-border trade and tourism payments and...
Two of the planet’s most cashless societies are now reexamining their move from paper money. As The Guardian reported Sunday (March 16), Sweden and Norway...
If the U.K. adopts a digital currency, citizens shouldn’t expect cash and coins to disappear. That’s according to Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey, who...
Swift wants to let banks test tokenized transactions on its global messaging network. Beginning next year, financial institutions (FIs) will be able to carry out...
Canada’s experiment with the digital dollar is over, at least for now. The Bank of Canada announced recently that after years of exploring the idea of a...
New research shows that 134 countries are exploring central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). Those countries account for 98% of the world’s economy, according to findings released Tuesday...