9 results about this entity
Period: 17 Mar 2006 - 24 Oct 2024
News/payments
Norway's progress to become one of the world's first cashless economy has hit a roadblock under new rules passed by Parliament that oblige shops to accept cash payments alongside other mobile payment and card options.
24 October 2024
Project Icebreaker, a joint initiative from the Bank for International Settlements and the central banks of Israel, Norway, and Sweden, has successfully concluded a study on the potential benefits and challenges of using retail central bank digital currencies (CBDC) in international payments.
06 March 2023
The central banks of Israel, Norway and Sweden are working with the Bank for International Settlements to explore how CBDCs can be used for international retail and remittance payments.
29 September 2022
News/crypto
Norway's central bank has made the source code for its CBDC sandbox publicly available and confirmed that the prototype infrastructure for the project is based on Ethereum technology.
16 September 2022
Company announcement/crypto
Norges Bank is today publishing Financial Infrastructure Report 2021 and Norges Bank Papers 2/2021, "Retail payment services 2020".
20 May 2021
Norway's central bank has set out plans to test a host of technical options for a CBDC over the next couple of years.
23 April 2021
The Norwegian central bank is in no rush to introduce a digital Krone, despite conducting recent research which shows that cash is used for just four percent of transactions in Norway.
10 November 2020
Company announcement
LCH Ltd, a leading global clearing house, announced today that it has established deposit and intraday liquidity facilities with Norges Bank, the central bank of Norway.
28 April 2017
News
Norges Bank, the Central Bank of Norway, has signed a contract worth EUR3.5 million with Italy's Società Interbancaria per l'Automazione (SIA) for the supply and implementation of a real time gross settlement (RTGS) system.
17 March 2006
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