From drab cash to digital currency; Sweden assembling CBDC (not from IKEA)
Sweden has long been at the forefront of the move towards a cashless society and is recognised as one of the most cashless economies in...
Steven Pettigrove, Partner, Piper Alderman
Michael Bacina, Partner, Travers Thorp Alberga
Sweden has long been at the forefront of the move towards a cashless society and is recognised as one of the most cashless economies in...
The launch of Libra back in June 2019 drew swathes of attention as the Libra Association attempted to create a compliant digital currency...
In ambitions to shape the application of distributed ledger technology to prevail over existing pain points in cross-border transfers,...
United Overseas Bank (UOB), Singapore’s third largest bank, appears to be making the move into the cryptocurrency space. After...
On Monday, the Australian Financial Review reported that Levitas Capital, a Sydney-based hedge find, was the target of a fake Zoom invite...
The Brazilian Minister of Economic Affairs, Paulo Guedes, envisions Brazil will step into the new age through issuing its own CBDC.
JPMorgan's digital currency, JPM Coin, has made its first live commercial transaction this week by a large international technology company.
PayPal announced on 21 October 2020 that it will be offering digital currencies to US customers.
The OECD and the G20 on 12 October 2020 published a report analysing different international tax policy implications of the taxation of...
Just two weeks after the Central bank of the Bahamas announced it was set to become the first country in the world to launch a central...
The RBA has published a detailed paper setting out its continued sceptical position on a possible retail central bank digital currency
Mastercard has announced the release of a proprietary testing environment which gives central banks the tools to test CBDCs
The US OCC is pushing forward with a its plan to offer national banking charter to non-depository payment providers