Finextra

MAY 9, 2024

The Bank of Thailand (BOT) recently released the report of its Retail Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) pilot project which it conducted on Giesecke+Devrient´'s (G+D) technology solution.

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The Paypers

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) has revealed the intention to launch a wholesale central bank digital currency (CBDC) by 2026.

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The Paypers

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Global payments technology company Mastercard has revealed that it demonstrated CBDC interoperability for trusted Web3 commerce in Australia.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 19, 2021

Banque de France has successfully conducted its own central bank digital currency (CBDC) trial, with a blockchain platform for interbank settlement, CoinDesk reported. In 2020, the bank put out a request for applications for a CBDC experiment. startup SETL provided, of around 2 million euros (about $2.4 million), per CoinDesk.

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The Paypers

JUNE 23, 2023

Collaborating with the Bank of Italy , the Associazione Bancaria Italiana (ABI) has brought together a group of banks in a pilot program for a central bank digital currency (CBDC).

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The Paypers

AUGUST 3, 2022

The Bank of Japan (BoJ) has announced it will be abandoning its planned host of central bank digital currency (CBDC) services due to a reported lack of public interest.

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The Paypers

APRIL 5, 2023

The Central Bank of the UAE has launched its Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) Implementation Strategy in collaboration with R3 , G42 Cloud and Clifford Chance.

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Payments Dive

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Researchers designed a prototype digital currency and blockchain and simulated foreign exchange spot transactions that cleared within 10 seconds, but they said the study doesn’t endorse a CBDC or assume the Fed will issue one.

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The Paypers

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Banque de France and the Banque centrale du Luxembourg worked together on an experimental Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) initiative.

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Payments Dive

APRIL 17, 2024

Despite political opposition to a potential U.S. central bank digital currency, research staff at the central bank continue to study the possibility.

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The Paypers

JANUARY 12, 2023

The People’s Bank of China (PBC) has included in its currency circulation report the country’s central bank digital currency (CBDC), the e-CNY, also known as digital yuan.

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The Paypers

JUNE 14, 2023

The Bank of Thailand has revealed its plans to launch a retail CBDC pilot in a regulatory sandbox in collaboration with three payment providers.

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The Paypers

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The Reserve Bank of India has launched CBDC pilots in the wholesale and the retail segment, with the retail one including blockchain-based components.

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The Fintech Times

MARCH 7, 2024

Through the new project, Hong Kong Monetary Authority will explore innovative financial market infrastructure (FMI) that will facilitate seamless interbank settlement of tokenised money through a wholesale CBDC.

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The Paypers

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Financial messaging system SWIFT has laid out its blueprint for a global central bank digital currency (CBDC) network following an 8-month experiment on different technologies and currencies.

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Payments Dive

AUGUST 29, 2022

The nation’s biggest bank and bank trade groups stressed the risks of creating a central bank digital currency in comments to the Fed, and largely rejected the idea that a digital dollar would accomplish stated goals.

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The Paypers

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Norges Bank officials have announced that Norway’s central bank digital currency (CBDC) prototype is based on Ethereum infrastructure.

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Finextra

MARCH 25, 2024

Swift says a new round of sandbox testing has found that its central bank digital currency interlinking technology can enable financial institutions to carry out a wide range of transactions using CBDCs and other forms of digital tokens, easily incorporating them into their business practices.

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The Paypers

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has revealed its intention to explore offline solutions to improve CBDC adoption in India’s remote areas.

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The Paypers

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Nigeria has launched its central bank digital currency (CBDC), the eNaira, following an announcement by its president, according to trtworld.com.

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The Paypers

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

South Korea has revealed its plans to launch a central bank digital currency (CBDC) pilot involving 100,000 citizens in the fourth quarter of 2024.

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Payments Dive

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The House Financial Services Committee advanced a bill last week that would block the creation of a central bank digital currency.

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Finextra

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

India is moving ahead with the next stage of its digital rupee pilot, adding programmability and offline payment capability.

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The Paypers

JUNE 1, 2022

The Central Bank of Ghana (BoG) has announced it granted Vodafone Cash and CalBank customers the opportunity to test its online version of its digital currency (CBDC), the eCedi.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 31, 2020

The Bank of Korea (BOK) is speeding up its efforts to create a central bank digital currency (CBDC) experimental program, The Korea Times reported. A possible partner will assist the central bank in making a CBDC system framework based on the results from the first stage's research results.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

But as to what a CBDC might look like in the eurozone, ECB executive board member Yves Mersch said a speech earlier this year that retail central bank digital currency (CBDC) is a game-changer and that retail CBDCs would be a “main focus.”

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The Paypers

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Switzerland-based banking software company Temenos has showcased how the Temenos banking platform can be used to support CBDC wallets.

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The Paypers

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

India-based YES BANK has gone live with Unified Payments Interface (UPI) interoperability on the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) app.

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Finextra

MARCH 7, 2024

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) has kicked off a new wholesale central bank digital currency (wCBDC) project to render support to the development of the tokenisation market in the territory.

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The Paypers

AUGUST 18, 2023

US-based Mastercard has launched a CBDC partner programme that aims to encourage open discussions around the emergence of CBDCs.

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The Paypers

AUGUST 21, 2023

US-based payment-processing corporation Mastercard has chosen UK-based blockchain technology company Fluency as its CBDC partner.

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The Paypers

MAY 19, 2023

US-based crypto solutions provider Ripple has enhanced its CBDC platform to meet the needs of central banks, governments, and financial institutions.

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The Paypers

JUNE 1, 2023

Bank of Japan (BOJ) has announced that its CBDC pilot project was launched on schedule in April, after a second successful proof-of-concept.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 23, 2020

If the technology garners heightened public interest, Masayoshi Amamiya said at the time, there could potentially be a need for issuance of central bank digital currencies (CBDC). However, he stressed he felt believed it was “very important” that the BOJ keep scrutinizing the feasibility of circulating CBDC.

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The Paypers

MAY 31, 2023

Australia-based Monoova has successfully completed the first real-world cross-border settlement using the Australian dollar CBDC.

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Payments Dive

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Central bank digital currencies would allow for faster cross-border payments that would “help boost trade within the region and with the rest of the world,” an Equinix executive writes.

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NFCW

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The offline P2P trial forms phase two of JCB’s ongoing CBDC pilot — known as JCBDC — and will test a system for making peer-to-peer digital currency transfers either from one physical card to another via an intermediary NFC mobile device or directly between NFC smartphones.

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