Digital Currency News

Consumer trust in CBDCs could spell disaster for smaller private lenders, a new report warns.

Tencent statistics show an almost 50/50 split over support for a central bank digital currency appearing from Beijing.

PayPal co-founder Luke Nosek admits the company would have created something like cryptocurrencies if the market had permitted.

South Korea's central bank says it won’t be issuing a central bank digital currency in the near term, but will continue to conduct detailed research into the ma...

Tehran may reveal the identity of a new state-sponsored cryptocurrency at a conference this week.

A sub-governor from the central bank of Egypt has said the entity is looking into issuing a blockchain-based digital currency.

Calgary, a city in the Canadian province of Alberta, allows citizens to pay for local goods and services via its new digital Calgary dollar.

IMF head Christine Lagarde says relevant actors “should consider the possibility to issue digital currency.”

A dedicated focus group says that Israel’s central bank should “continue examining the field” prior to making a firm commitment in releasing a digital currency.

Investment giant Fidelity is turning to digital assets services, and Steve Wozniak gets into blockchain.

Dubai’s state-backed digital currency emcash will soon have its own payment system for goods, services, and other transactions.

A Mongolian telecoms company will issue its own digital currency after getting formal approval from the central bank.

The Bank of Thailand has revealed a major collaborative project to develop a wholesale Central Bank Digital Currency using R3’s Corda platform.

The German Federal Ministry of Finance thinks issuing a central bank digital currency has too many unforeseen risks to justify its implementation.

Cambridge Analytica, the data consultancy firm accused of improper access the data of millions of Facebook users, may have been planning to develop its own digi...