Digital Currency

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...

The New York Fed released a statement on November 15 indicating they are rolling out a 12-week long pilot for...

The National Bank of Ukraine recently laid out its vision for e-hryvina. E-hryvina is the central bank digital currency (CBDC)...

Cryptocurrency markets have often sold themselves as having an advantage: they are largely unregulated by government agencies by design. The...

Why CBDC and why now? The past few years have witnessed many innovations designed to revolutionize money. First in 2009,...

The U.S. is pursuing a digital dollar, or Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), and made major steps towards this vision...