Kyrgyzstan President Sadyr Japarov took his country a step closer to issuing its own central bank digital currency Thursday, ...

Central bank digital currencies have the potential to improve financial inclusion for women, but only if they are combined ...

A central bank digital currency, or CBDC, is a digital version of a region’s fiat currency, put out by the region’s monetary authority. CBDCs gained a significant spotlight in 2020 ...

The Central Bank digital currency (CBDC) development in the United States ... including pilot projects and full-scale launches. Countries like Japan, India, Australia, South Korea, and Turkey ...

This report provides an overview of the current state of CBDCs, first looking at the whole digital currencies market and the motivations for CBDC development. It discusses the distinction between ...

Philip Lane, chief economist of the European Central Bank, recently expressed urgency for the need to develop a digital euro—also known as a central bank digital currency (CBDC)—to compete ...

The digital dollar would be a central bank-issued digital currency (CBDC) that would be a digital variant of the U.S. dollar. Unlike cryptocurrencies, based on decentralized networks, a digital ...

This content is contributed or sourced from third parties but has been subject to Finextra editorial review. Central banks worldwide are accelerating retail CBDC (central bank digital currency ...

At its core, a CBDC or central bank digital currency is basically a digital form of fiat currency, distinct from decentralized cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin. It would allow the BoC to issue and ...

A bill designed to stop the U.S. Federal Reserve from issuing a central bank digital currency (CBDC) moved a step closer to ...