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

This is important in Nepal’s rural areas with limited or unreliable internet access. China, for example, has developed a ...

Industy experts shared their thoughts on the future of new wave of payments, at the Tech & Innovation Summit, organised by Entrepreneur India.

Belarus will launch CBDC by late 2026, first for businesses, then for the government and public, in partnership with Russia.

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 ...

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

Dr. Nir Yaacobi from the Digital Shekel team at the Bank of Israel shared that participants in the study were randomly ...

While these features may increase competition with cash ... weaponisation of payment infrastructures – anxieties around CBDC are ironic in the context of widespread reliance on payment systems ...

The U.S. House Financial Services Committee passes the Anti-CBDC Surveillance State Act, aiming to block the Federal Reserve ...

If the EU is accelerating toward totalitarian collectivism, as this statement suggests, then a CBDC would be a powerful tool—enabling tighter control over Europeans’ money with features like an ...

The Anti-CBDC Surveillance State Act seeks to block the Fed from issuing a digital currency without Congress' approval to protect privacy.

Eleven stores in South Korea can now pay using the Bank of Korea’s digital currency. with a 10% discount to incentivize adoption.