Central bank digital currencies, or CBDCs, have come under withering criticism for the way they enable authoritarian governments to control their citizens. And yet, a number of leading figures in ...

and no one can tell a user what they can or can’t do with their digital money. For CBDCs, the central bank controls the digital currency and oversees transactions, potentially allowing it to ...

House Republicans are set to pass a bill that will block the Federal Reserve from implementing a central bank digital ...

Former President Donald Trump expressed heavy skepticism about the security of a central bank digital currency (CBDC), which ... because there is no real solution,” he said in a preview of ...

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 research by the U.S.-based Atlantic Council think-tank published on Tuesday showed that all G20 nations are now looking into central bank digital ... on a digital rial. "No matter what happens ...

the world’s first central-bank digital currency (CBDC). Cardholders did not have accounts with the bank. Instead their monetary value was tracked by chips physically inserted into them.

Almost two-thirds of countries in the Middle East and Central Asia are exploring adopting a central bank digital currency as a way to promote financial ... While there are no clear prerequisites to ...