Joasia E. Popowicz
Associate editor, Central Banking
Joasia E. Popowicz is the associate editor and fintech correspondent at Central Banking. She chairs the FinTech & RegTech Global Awards, and is the fintech subject specialist for the Central Banking Benchmarking Service. Previously, Joasia worked as a data journalist across Risk Quantum and Central Banking. She was a data journalism fellow at the Brown Institute for Media Innovation and Enigma, a fintech in New York. The Brown Institute is a joint initiative between Stanford University and Columbia University that funds projects at the intersection of journalism and technology. Joasia graduated with an MS in investigative journalism from the Toni Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism at Columbia Journalism School.
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US targets North Korean crypto hacking
Treasury seeks co-operation to better enforce sanctions on North Korea and Russia
Crypto a ‘wake-up call’ for central banks
Digital economy needs CBDC as risk-free asset, say panellists at ECB’s Sintra conference
BIS: the future of money is not crypto
Hyun Song Shin lays out vision of payments innovation backed by CBDC
Central bank gold purchases back in positive territory
War and inflation appear to be supporting demand for the reserve asset
The winners of the 2022 FinTech RegTech Global Awards
Fifth annual tech awards recognise excellence among central banks and the firms they work with
Central Banking’s 5th Annual FinTech & RegTech Global Awards
Central Banking is pleased to announce the winners of its 5th annual fintech and regtech awards recognising excellence in the central banking community
MAS launches asset tokenisation and DeFi project
First pilot on bond transactions will involve state-owned firms and JP Morgan
Bangladesh Bank heist casino boss faces lawsuit in New York
Bank asserts Kim Wong was involved in money laundering for North Korean regime
Yellen calls for new stablecoin regulation amid algorithmic crash
Terra, a leading stablecoin, lost its dollar peg as several crypto-assets fell
Digital shekel must avoid arbitrage, public says
Israeli digital currency should comply with global information security standards
BoE raises rate to 1% as recession risks mount
Inflation expected to climb above 10% and GDP growth to drop to around zero
PBoC focusing on grain and energy to stem inflation
Price stability in grain production and energy supply key to growth, says governor
Gas investments important for energy security, UK’s Sunak tells BoE
Chancellor of the Exchequer urges officials to support government’s energy security policy
Riksbank reports on e-krona pilot’s performance
Pilot CBDC can integrate into payments systems, but met potential AML and performance problems
China expands e-yuan pilot
Beijing to trail use of central bank digital currency outside of Olympic Games centres
Project Ellipse: real-time data and the ‘art of the possible’
BIS’s Andrew McCormack and MAS’s Kenneth Gay talk about phase two of the suptech project, which combines real-time news with regulatory data
BoE partners with MIT on CBDC
Bank of Canada and the Boston Fed have also teamed up with MIT on research projects
Project Dunbar raises ‘more questions than answers’
BIS’s multi-CBDC project focused on qualitative benefits and trialled small-scale cross-border transfers
Bank of Thailand and finance ministry delay PayPal suspension
PayPal Thailand must comply with KYC regulations by end of year, central bank says
Fintech Benchmarks 2022 report – facing the tech test
Intelligence on internal fintech challenges at central banks as they contend with the fast-paced industry
Risk Management Benchmarks 2022 report – assuming new responsibilities
Insights on risk priorities among central banks, the response to the pandemic, changes in organisational structures and the importance of climate change risk
Economics Benchmarks 2021 report – making sense of the modern economy
Covid-19 coloured central banks’ views on the governance of their economics function in the past year, from research topics to forecasting, data, publications and more
Currency Benchmarks 2021 report – ensuring confidence in the cash cycle
Perspectives on staffing, circulation, forecasting, substrate choice and security features, outsourcing, access to cash and climate risk