India Fintech Foundation (IFF) was officially launched at Startup Mahakumbh as a proposed self-regulatory organization for ...

Here’s a quick timeline: In July 2021, RBI officially announced it was exploring a Digital Rupee. By February 2022, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman confirmed that CBDC would be introduced in ...

Judge went 4-for-6 with a double, three home runs, four runs scored and eight RBI in Saturday's 20-9 win over the Brewers. The eight RBI were a career high for Judge, who took former teammate ...

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 ...

Built like crypto but regulated by the RBI, India's eRupee CBDC is currently under its advanced trial phase. The country’s apex bank, at this point, is looking at the eRupee to become a tool to ...

Speaking about the eRupee CBDC, RBI Governer Shaktikanta Das emphasised that it plays a key role in India's "world-class digital public infrastructure" (DPI), which has enabled the creation of ...

This Direction also incorporates suitable modifications to and rationalisation in existing guidelines. 3. This Direction has been issued by RBI in exercise of its powers conferred under Section 35A of ...

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 ...

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Thursday (March 20, 2025) said it has appointed Indranil Bhattacharyya as executive director (ED). As executive director, Mr. Bhattacharyya will look after the ...

With the US Fed on hold, will RBI ease further? After cutting the repo rate to 6.25% last month, the first in nearly five years, markets are watching for the central bank's next move. Listen to Story ...

South Korea is gradually exploring the Web3 ecosystem The BoK is said to have been working on its CBDC since 2020 The trial will test if CBDC can be a payment alternative ...