A digital version of the shilling could help Kenya exit a global watch list of financial crimes, a group of experts has claimed.The experts have urged the State to embrace Central Bank Digital ...

Central bank digital currencies have often been deemed a solution in search of a problem. But U.S. President Donald Trump ...

A full replacement of fiat is unlikely in the near term. Instead, we are witnessing a hybrid future. CBDCs are modernizing ...

The Nigeria-China Strategic Partnership has disclosed plans to sign an agreement on digital RMB with China to allow the ease ...

The Eastern European country of Belarus is reportedly set to roll out a central bank digital currency (CBDC) by next year.

After announcing an advisory relationship with Binance founder Changpeng Zhao (CZ), the Kyrgyz Republic has approved a law ...

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Amid the global trade war and President Donald Trump’s unprecedented tariffs, the Chinese yuan has declined to multi-year lows ... The PBOC’s claims about record-breaking usage of its digital yuan are ...

Most notably, Cruz introduced the Anti-CBDC Surveillance State Act ... Reports of China linking its digital RMB to ten ASEAN and six Middle Eastern countries appear to be unverified and likely ...

Instead, economists expect the central bank to engineer an orderly and gradual depreciation. "RMB (Renminbi) devaluation will not be part of China's retaliation toolkit to U.S. tariffs," said HSBC ...

While the eyes are mostly on the US, it is hard not to ignore China’s announcement that six middle eastern nations and 10 ASEAN countries have agreed to China’s digital RMB cross-border ...

The CBDC IL Forum’s meeting brochure Study: The Israeli Public’s Willingness to Adopt a Digital Shekel Dr. Nir Yaacobi from the Digital Shekel team at the Bank of Israel shared that participants in ...