Digital Currency

While many readers have been keeping up with general developments in CBDCs through these pages and other sources, the more...

The global cross-border payments space has been under scrutiny for roughly ten years now due to perceived high costs, lack...

WeChat has integrated the digital yuan into its platform, enabling users to pay for goods and services using their Central...

The Bank of England and the Treasury is working to create a central bank digital currency called “Britcoin” that may...

There’s been an abundance of information on cross-border payments and CBDCs, and here is yet another that highlights a recent...

Like cryptocurrency, central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) are considered digital currency and are issued by a central bank. Many countries...

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is ordering Mastercard to abandon anti-competitive practices related to eWallet tokenization. According to the FTC,...

Many readers of these pages will be familiar with the flip-flop on the part of Russia vis-à-vis the use of...

In Q4 2022, India launched a pilot of its central bank digital currency (CBDC), the digital rupee, with a total...

There’s an interesting perspective outlined in this article from Ledger Insights, which is that budding CBDCs issued in advanced economies...