CBDC News

Privacy concerns regarding the digital euro abound as the European Central bank tests the waters for a central bank digital currency.

Here’s what crypto and blockchain industry experts from China think about the digital yuan and how it has affected the blockchain space.

State Bank of Pakistan governor Reza Baqir says the country is “waiting to burst as far as digitization is concerned.”

Could a digital pound accelerate Britain’s growth post-Brexit and retake London’s status as the European financial hub?

Participants will receive a discount for every central bank digital currency expenditure worth 100 yuan.

Peter Thiel has urged the U.S. government to reappraise China’s relationship with Bitcoin from a geopolitical perspective.

The Sveriges Riksbank said that CBDC technology still requires further investigation.

The first phase of Japan’s CBDC pilots will have been completed by March 2022, the central bank states.

Thailand’s central bank is calling for public comments on its proposed plan to launch a sovereign digital currency within the next five years.

The central bank says strong interest in its CBDC project is partly being driven by Bitcoin's recent surge, despite cryptocurrency still being banned in China.

Retail investors are flocking to buy Filecoin on exchanges with predominately Chinese user bases and the head of the PBOC thinks the digital yuan has an uphill battle to take on Alipay and WeChat Pay.

The ECCB has launched a regional central bank digital currency in partnership with Caribbean fintech outfit Bitt.

The digital yuan continues to develop apace.

The ECB will decide whether to proceed with digital euro pilots by mid-2021, Lagarde said.

The digital ruble will become an integral part of national settlements by 2023 or 2024, Anatoly Aksakov of the Russian State Duma predicted.