Payments
Retail CBDCs can promote payment competition, report finds
BIS, HKMA and Bank of Israel say project found using different service providers need not harm security
Myanmar official says Mir payments will launch in October
Central bank leader had predicted the Russian card would start circulating last year
Barr says Fed will not issue CBDC without legislation
Supervision chief warns of danger of unregulated issuance of stablecoins
Vanuatu launches new automated payments network
Island nation opens interbank rails and central securities depository
RBI’s CBDC pilot has 1.5 million users, says Das
Governor says project is aiming to reach one million daily transactions by December
Financial regulators: one, two, maybe a few?
As Jamaica moves to introduce the ‘twin peaks’ approach to financial oversight, Ben Margulies assesses some of the pros and cons
Menon to step down as MAS head
Chia Der Jiun will become Singapore’s central bank boss in January
A ‘unified ledger’ and the future of money
Blueprint set out by the BIS staff raises plenty of questions about the 'singleness of money'
Vietnam joins South-east Asian cross-border payment bloc
Six Asian central banks have joined forces to build faster and cheaper cross-border payments
Hungary’s gamified CBDC pilot designed for children
Student Safe project is the first live retail CBDC pilot in Europe
ECB: from a supply to a demand-driven floor?
Eurozone’s central bank expected formally to abandon corridor in forthcoming operational framework review
RBA says CBDC decision is likely ‘some years away’
Australian central bank says a CBDC might improve payments system but also questions its necessity
Cambodia and Laos launch cross-border payments link
Travellers from the two countries will be able to shop in their home currencies using QR codes
Central bank communicators at a time of transparency
Specialists discuss the evolving roles of comms staff in the policy-making process
Custodia opens for business without Fed master account
Wyoming digital assets bank is continuing legal action against the US central bank
Cuba central bank official says cash shortage is ‘critical situation’
Banks struggle to meet demand as government tries to expand use of e-payments
Brazilian central bank outlines CBDC project
Drex is being developed on a distributed ledger platform with smart contracts
Economic impact of CBDC likely ‘negligible’ – Colombian paper
Economists at Central Bank of Colombia consider design choices and how they may affect the economy
Russia starts digital ruble trials
Sanctioned banks are participating in CBDC pilot
BoE’s RTGS system goes down for nearly six hours
Database problem prevented high-value payment system from opening at usual time
El Salvador’s central bank licenses Binance
Move comes despite growing international regulatory concern over crypto exchange firm
Bank of Canada’s Maryam Haghighi on quantum computing in central banks
The director of data science talks about post-quantum encryption, payments simulation and optimisation problems, and how the quantum work is happening in a multidisciplinary way
PayPal launches US dollar stablecoin
Company will publish reserves report in September
When £1 is not £1
Gabriel Stein examines the risks from introducing a CBDC should its value diverge from that of physical currency and bank deposits