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The project is hoping that a new name will help people forget the mass regulatory panic that drowned out Libra’s initial announcement.

Nobody seems to be in a rush to digitize the euro, but that could change given increasing global competition.

Stablecoins and CBDCs and their related issues of privacy and surveillance lead this week's Law Decoded.

Libra will initially be pegged to just one fiat currency.

The Libra Association has made a key hire in its pursuit of a new cryptocurrency and payments system.

After proposing automated ways to monitor global stablecoins like Libra, a new report from BIS argues that a better solution may ultimately be central bank digital currencies.

The paper also put forward CBDCs as solutions to high transaction fees and the energy use of mining cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin.

What lies at the heart of the current problems with social media? What can and cannot be fixed?

BIS Innovation Hub head Benoît Cœuré stressed the importance of maintaining multiple payment options beyond just CBDCs.

As the U.S. stock market enters earnings season, analysts explain how Bitcoin could perform after earnings and the presidential election.

Though the hearing did not focus on solutions, open source looks like a real way of addressing the committee's concerns about transparency and accountability.

The CSO of CoinShares thinks that a payments-focused PayPal token could be forthcoming.

The proposed EU crypto market regulation will raise many compliance obstacles for the next Libra-like project seeking to operate in Europe.

Talk of CBDCs and Facebook's Libra headlined this week's policy news, as international organizations weigh in on both.

The Financial Stability Board has warned that global stablecoins could pose systemic risks to the monetary systems of nation-states.