“The Subhadra scheme was the first government programme to distribute funds using the digital rupee. Following the success in ...

House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN) slammed the concept of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) in a recent Congressional ...

The Bank of Israel has published a preliminary design document for the proposed digital shekel. Central banks around the ...

which while looked at with disfavor in the Global North, could provide advantages in less developed economies. In Kazakhstan, ...

South Korea is launching a CBDC trial with 100,000 consumers, using digital currency-backed deposit tokens for retail ...

This report provides an overview of the current state of CBDCs, first looking at the whole digital currencies market and the motivations for CBDC development. It discusses the distinction between ...

China, for example, moved quickly toward the prospect of its own CBDC, called the digital yuan. The Bahamas burst on the central bank digital currency market in 2020 with the first CBDC.

The Bank of Thailand (BOT) announced on Friday that it would begin a pilot study of a retail central bank digital currency (CBDC) by the end of this year. On a limited scale, a possible real-life ...

The Bank of Israel is inviting feedback on a newly-published high-level design for a potential digital shekel.

Kyrgyzstan launches a gold-backed stablecoin that prioritizes transparency, financial inclusion and real-world utility over centralized control ...