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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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Offline settlements with a digital pound: Lessons from the BoE’s report

The Payments Association

It highlights major trade-offs in security, privacy, and policy that must be addressed before offline CBDC payments can scale. If implemented, offline CBDC capability could introduce new consumer behaviours, shift merchant requirements, and alter the economics of digital payment acceptance. Why is it important? What’s next?

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Bitcoin Daily: UK Researching CBDC Use Cases; Lebanon To Introduce CBDC In 2021; SEC Member Pushes For Cryptocurrency Regulation; ShapeShift Delists Three Privacy Coins

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Treasury Department is researching use cases for a central bank digital currency (CBDC), as well as drafting regulatory proposals for private stablecoins, U.K. Meanwhile, Lebanon Governor Riad Salameh announced that the country will be introducing a CBDC next year, to “restore confidence,” reported Bloomberg.

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Bank of Canada Puts CBDC Development on Ice: Is This Indicative of Global CBDC Demise?

The Fintech Times

While 134 countries and currency unions, representing 98 per cent of global GDP, are currently exploring a central bank digital currency (CBDC), the Bank of Canada has revealed it is officially putting efforts to introduce a digital version of the Canadian dollar on pause. Could a CBDC still be in Canada’s future?

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Is 2025 Finally the Year for Open Finance in Southeast Asia?

Fintech News

A new report by Twimbit, a Singapore-based research and advisory firm, highlights the state of open finance in Southeast Asia, exploring the different factors such as regional integration, technological innovation, evolving business models, and API monetization that are fueling the growth of the sector.

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Federal Reserve’s Cunha on the State (and Timeframe) of Digital Dollars

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And there’ll be quite a bit of tinkering with the technology (especially the infrastructure) and the use cases to get there. As many as 80 percent of the 66 central banks polled by the Bank of International Settlements said they were at some stage of CBDC development. Digital dollars are a maybe – but if so, not for a while.

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