Donald Trump has officially banned the creation of a U.S. central bank digital currency (CBDC), but upon close examination, ...

CBDCs or central bank digital currencies are increasingly being studied by entities such as the Bank of Canada for their ...

Christine Lagarde, President of the European Central Bank, has announced the intent to launch a Digital Euro in October.

India has promoted rupee-based trade settlements with key partners The RBI is developing a central bank digital currency (CBDC), part of a process that has seen the country depend less on physical ...

China, for example, moved quickly toward the prospect of its own CBDC, called the digital yuan. The Bahamas burst on the central bank digital currency market in 2020 with the first CBDC.

“The Subhadra scheme was the first government programme to distribute funds using the digital rupee. Following the success in Odisha, discussions are underway to integrate the CBDC into government ...

From that, it is easy to see how a CBDC could be used as another tool in the kitbag of an authoritarian government. Digital currency plans in the UK and the Eurozone incorporate meaningful checks ...

Leading global CBDC rollout is China ... In the finance sector, for example, CBDCs can offer greatly improved efficiency in payments – both domestic and cross-border. This means faster payment ...

The Bank of Israel released a preliminary design proposal for a digital shekel (DS), Israel’s potential central bank digital currency (CBDC), despite no solid intent as yet for an official launch.

The Bank of Korea will launch the Hangang CBDC pilot in April, involving 100,000 participants testing digital currency ...