- Mar 25, 2021
- 2 min
Greenback Goes Digital: US CDBC coming soon?
Mixed messages in the US concerning Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC) have made it difficult to predict whether the US Federal...
- Mar 11, 2021
- 2 min
Ripple - built for a CBDC?
Research shows that 80% of central banks worldwide are engaging in central bank digital currency (CBDC) related research, with banks...
- Mar 5, 2021
- 2 min
China makes it rain centralised digital currency
Winners of a government lottery to test the eCNY are singing their praises (paywalled) for the new national digital currency. As an...
- Feb 19, 2021
- 2 min
Mastercard, Visa and Bahama's CBDC
Digital currencies are entering to the Mastercard network and will soon be available globally to card holders. Mastercard recently...
- Jan 29, 2021
- 2 min
Digital currencies cruise into the Davos World Economic Forum discussion
Since 1971 the World Economic Forum has considered a broad range of matters impacting the global public interest. It does this by...
- Jan 22, 2021
- 2 min
French Central Bank hails first funds transaction using digital euro
The Banque de France has reportedly completed a pilot transaction with a central bank digital currency (CBDC). In The Bank announced the...
- Dec 7, 2020
- 2 min
Suggestion & Surveillance: Talk of Chinese CBDC scares VIPs from Macau
Macau, a special administrative region of China with a gaming industry seven(!) times larger than that of Las Vegas, has been rattled by...
- Nov 27, 2020
- 2 min
China challenges G20 to charge on with CBDC co-operation
Last week, China’s President Xi Jinping urged G20 meeting attendees to support digital currency and advised that member countries should...
- Nov 19, 2020
- 2 min
Australia better hop to it to keep up with a Digital Euro in the race to CBDCs
In a global race to digitise national currencies, the EU has kept good on its earlier promises to explore implementing the CBDC.
- Nov 10, 2020
- 1 min
Demand for digital currencies offered by PayPal to be significantly bolstered
PayPal reinforces importance of digital currencies and the inevitability of CBDCs in recent earnings call.
- Nov 2, 2020
- 2 min
- Oct 23, 2020
- 4 min
- Oct 13, 2020
- 3 min
OECD publishes insights on tax policy issues of digital currencies
The OECD and the G20 on 12 October 2020 published a report analysing different international tax policy implications of the taxation of...