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News/crypto
Citi’s Digital Money Symposium brought together experts and businesses in the industry to explore trends and future developments in the digital money market.
31 March 2023
News/regulation
The Bank for International Settlements has opened its European Hub, located in both Paris and Frankfurt, with a focus on decentralised finance, wholesale CBDC, cyber security and green finance.
29 March 2023
News/payments
NextGen Nordics will return to Stockholm on 25 April 2023, and we will be welcoming a range of speakers who will discuss topics such as P27, cross border payments, open banking, BNPL, CBDCs, digital assets and Web 3.0.
27 March 2023
ANZ is partnering with two universities to trial offline CBDC payments via smart cards that can be loaded with funds and used like physical cash.
08 March 2023
An offline CBDC could offer a compliment to cash that would boost financial inclusion and preserve privacy, suggests a note from the Bank of Canada.
07 March 2023
The Reserve Bank of Australia is kicking of 14 pilot projects to investigate potential use cases for a central bank digital currency.
02 March 2023
Bank of England deputy governor Jon Cunlifffe has told a committee of MPs that a digital pound has a better than 50/50 chance of coming to fruition.
28 February 2023
Ahead of NextGen Nordics, which will return to Stockholm on 25 April 2023, Finextra will be publishing a series of ‘sneak peeks’, covering the topics and interviewing the panellists speaking at the event.
24 February 2023
A unified programmable ledger could unleash an explosion of innovation in payments and money comparable to the arrival of the smartphone, according to Bank for International Settlements general manager Agustín Carstens.
23 February 2023
Following a two-year investigation phase, the Bank of Japan is kicking off pilot trials of a digital yen.
20 February 2023
Finextra will be back in Stockholm to bring the new world of Nordic banking to life for the NextGen Nordics 2023 conference on the 25th of April.
03 February 2023
News/inclusion
India's CBDC plans have taken a step forward with news that the country's largest retailer, Reliance Retail, has agreed to start accepting digital rupee payments.
A Universal Digital Payments Network (UDPN) for stablecoins and Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) was launched at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos. The network aims to provide interoperability between these digital currencies.
20 January 2023
China’s digital yuan app has released a function which allows payments to be made from mobile phones while offline and without any battery left on the device.
13 January 2023
The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston has released a statement announcing that research into the technical feasibility of a potential digital dollar has concluded.
23 December 2022
Following experiments demonstrating that DLT can be used with existing networks to complete CBDC financial transactions in real-time, Banque de France, HSBC and IBM have published a paper exploring their key findings.
16 December 2022
The Chancellor of Exchequer Jeremy Hunt has announced The Edinburgh Reforms, a set of developments to catalyse competition and growth in the UK FS sector, that includes moves on a CBDC and the move to Net Zero.
09 December 2022
The Central Bank of Nigeria has capped daily ATM withdrawals at $45 in order to encourage electronic payments, including the eNaira digital currency.
08 December 2022
News/wholesale
The central banks of France and Luxembourg have used an experimental CBDC to settle a EUR100 million digital native bond.
30 November 2022
NextGen Nordics will return on 25th April 2023 to Stockholm, Sweden and the timing of this event could not be better placed.
23 November 2022
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