Investopedia / Theresa Chiechi A U.S. central bank digital currency (CBDC) would be a tokenized and blockchain-based version of the U.S. dollar, maintained and issued by the Federal Reserve.

The Trump administration, like the Biden administration, was favorable toward a CBDC and additional financial surveillance, even for self-hosted digital wallets. Granted, President Trump vetoed ...

The author and editors take ultimate responsibility for the content. A central bank digital currency (CBDC) is a digital version of government-backed, fiat money. This type of digital currency is ...

Issuing an unremunerated CBDC or a wholesale CBDC does not change the objectives of monetary policy or the operational framework for monetary policy. CBDCs can, however, induce changes in the retail, ...

This week, the House of Representatives will vote on legislation sponsored by House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN) called the CBDC Anti-Surveillance State Act. The bill is relatively ...

They should instead be revising the UCC so that it’s harder to use a CBDC. A programmable digital currency could easily be controlled and tracked by a government agency or central bank.

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 problem is that for a CBDC to reach its financial inclusion potential for women, the right ecosystem needs to be in place, women consumers need to have adequate financial capability, and a ...

In Nigeria, citizens have taken to the streets to protest the nation’s cash shortage, further objecting to their government’s implementation of a central bank digital currency (CBDC).

Russia could start testing its ‘digital ruble,’ a central bank digital currency (CBDC), in just a few weeks. A bill granting legal authority to the central bank digital currency (CBDC ...