The Swiss National Bank (SNB) is set to begin piloting a wholesale digital franc next month. The bank, along with six other lenders from Switzerland, Germany and...
The recent attack on Israel by Hamas reportedly may have been funded in part by cryptocurrency. A review of Israeli government seizure orders and blockchain...
R3, a prominent blockchain company in the finance industry, has reportedly laid off one-fifth of its workforce. The company eliminated positions across different functions and...
Ledger, a provider of products and services for handling digital assets, has partnered with PayPal to offer a convenient and secure way for new users to...
A digital euro should complement, not replace, other electronic payment methods or cash. So said European Central Bank (ECB) Executive Board Member Fabio Panetta in...
The Bank of Tanzania is cautiously readying a central bank digital currency (CBDC). The country’s central bank said it will “continue to monitor, research and...
Public-private partnerships have yielded great things from railroads to universities, and now they stand to be a transformative force in the future of central bank...
In a pilot project that is said to be the first of its kind, the central banks of France, Singapore and Switzerland are collaborating in...
A four-country test of a cross-border payments system using central bank digital currencies was a success, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) declared last week,...