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CBDCs in practice: What we’ve learned from the early movers

The Payments Association

James Hurren explores what early CBDC deployments across Asia, the Caribbean, and Europe reveal about usage, adoption, and the future of cross-border digital money. Central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) have rapidly evolved from theoretical concepts into live pilots and national deployments.

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Bank of Ghana tests CBDC integration with mobile money providers

The Paypers

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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Fintech in the Caucasus: Armenia, Azerbaijan & Georgia

The Fintech Times

per cent Central Bank of Armenia (CBA) Armenia’s growth has been driven in part by its young, tech-savvy population. Through its regulatory sandbox, the Central Bank of Armenia (CBA) has attracted $90million in investments, propelling the country to 34th place in the Global Fintech Index 2023. per cent holding a credit card.

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Q4 Earnings Reports Show Mobile Banking’s Surge

PYMNTS

One common theme amid bank earnings — beyond lofty trading revenues gleaned from Wall Street — has been the increased uptake of mobile banking. Stats from banks, pretty much across the board, have given evidence that consumers have been pivoting to their mobile devices to attend to their everyday financial needs.

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Sweden’s Central Bank Floats E-Krona As Digital Currency

PYMNTS

Sweden’s Riksbank is assessing e-krona, a new form of digital currency that hopes to take the country a step closer to the creation of the world’s first central bank digital currency (CBDC), according to reports on Thursday (Feb. CBDCs are a digital form of traditional money issued and governed by a country’s central bank.

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Central Banks See Digital Fiat As Complement To Cash, Not Replacement

PYMNTS

The recently released report by the Bank for International Settlements ( BIS ) offers a general framework for digital currencies. The BIS noted of central bank digital currency ( CBDC ) that “a CBDC could provide a complementary central bank money to the public, supporting a more resilient and diverse domestic payment system.

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Wallet wars: How digital payments are reshaping finance

The Payments Association

As digital wallets reshape finance and big tech challenges traditional banks, who will control the future of money? The partnership signals a potential shift in power, where platforms like X aim to rival traditional banks in how money moves and who controls financial access.