News with the tag "Central Bank Digital Currencies"

As the United States explores a strategic crypto reserve, Israel is pushing ahead with its central bank digital currency (CBDC) plans. In a recent development, Israel released an initial design proposal for its official digital shekel (DS). Though the country’s potential launch of the digital shekel...

The president of Germany’s monetary authority is advocating for a central bank digital currency (CBDC). In a question-and-answer session with economists at the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum (OMFIF) think tank, the president of the Deutsche Bundesbank, Joachim Nagel, says he supp...

Payments giant MasterCard is forecasting that central banks will shift away from retail CBDCs (central bank digital currencies) and focus more on offering digital assets to banks and financial institutions. In a new blog post from Raj Dhamodharan, MasterCard’s head of crypto and blockchain, the anal...

With his U.S. Senate confirmation behind him, Scott Bessent is in place to be the top financial official of President Donald Trump's administration, where he'll be among those fulfilling the crypto directives already set out by the president last week. Bessent, a billionaire former hedge fund manage...

President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for Treasury Secretary does not think that the US needs to launch a central bank digital currency (CBDC). During his nomination hearing on Thursday, Scott Bessent told the Senate Finance Committee that, unlike other countries, the US will not gain much from rollin...

Lynette Zang, CEO of Zang Enterprises, asserts that hyperinflation is already underway, predicting a further decline in the U.S. dollar’s value. According to Zang’s recent interview with Kitco, the current financial trends indicate that the dollar’s purchasing power will reach zero, leading to a sig...

IMF staff members introduced a high-level four stage framework, emphasizing regulation, education, design, and incentives to enhance CBDC adoption.

Australia’s central bank and banknote issuing authority is pursuing initiatives on central bank digital currency (CBDC) and digital money. According to Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) assistant governor Brad Jones, the central bank’s work agenda on digital money will focus more on wholesale CBDC use...

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority has launched a sandbox to test the use of tokenized assets in real-world scenarios. The sandbox aims to promote interbank settlement using tokenized currency and central bank digital currencies. The HKMA will collaborate with other regulators and industry players to ...

India's central bank Governor Shaktikanta Das has said that while their retail central bank digital currency (CBDC) pilot has over 5 million users, there should not be in any rush to roll out a system-wide CBDC.