With rising electrification, mobile money penetration, and a vibrant private sector, a Central Bank Digital Currency ...

Why are central banks looking at blockchains? Central banks are tiptoeing into the world of blockchain not because it is ...

Proposed CBDC design features, such as caps on CBDC holdings and unremunerating the CBDC can moderate disintermediation risks, but they are not sufficient. Central banks will need to ensure that ...

The Bank of Israel released a preliminary design proposal for a digital shekel (DS), Israel’s potential central bank digital ...

The Biden administration’s position on a U.S. CBDC gives insight into the policy and technical design implications of the launch. Eleven countries have implemented a CBDC option among their ...

But late last year, shortly after the project came under scrutiny from anti-CBDC legislators, the Boston Fed ended Hamilton. Now the sort of technical design research that Project Hamilton ...

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has asked for countries to cooperate at the early stages of central bank digital currency (CBDC) design to make it easier for systems to work across ...

They describe it as a “multiyear research project to explore the CBDC design space and gain a hands-on understanding of a CBDC’s technical challenges and opportunities.” Despite the joint ...

Further, the project’s “primary goal was to design a core transaction processor that meets the robust speed, throughput, and fault tolerance requirements for a large retail payment system.” Clearly, ...

Most CBDC models rely on issuing currency to banks (the same way ... Our message to the 94% of central banks working toward functioning CBDCs is that if you design for women, the currency has the ...

as central banks need to “prudently contemplate on CBDC design features by balancing the benefits with its associated risk.” A number of countries in Asia are developing their own CBDCs ...