Finextra

JUNE 30, 2025

Central banks across 66 countries are now in the advanced phases of exploring Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs), with 44 pilots including the digital euro already underway. But digital currencies do not stand on their own. Digital currencies can be issued by central banks (aka. billion in April.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

Bank of England Deputy Governor Jon Cunliffe said it isn't his job to shield banks from the coming shift to digital currencies, Reuters reported. Andrew Bailey , governor of the BoE, said over the summer that the BoE is closely examining how the idea of a digital currency would work.

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PYMNTS

JULY 30, 2020

s central bank announced on Thursday (July 30) that it has hired IT firm Accenture to revamp and modernize what is known as the Real-Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) service, which handles daily transactions worth more than $895 million between large financial institutions (FIs).

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Payments: This category includes companies working on tech like payment currencies, stablecoins (cryptocurrency pegged to the value of a non-volatile asset like the dollar), and real-time gross settlement (RTGS) systems that can enable transactions within a DLT-based capital markets framework.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Financial institutions (FIs) are increasingly automatically routing transactions that would have once been moved via the Bulk Electronic Clearing System (BECS) Direct Entry to NPP, while businesses are replacing real-time gross settlement (RTGS) transactions with NPP as well, the report noted.

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Finextra

JUNE 11, 2025

Real-Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) (2004): A major leap forward, establishing a robust system for large-value, real-time interbank fund transfers, enhancing systemic efficiency and reducing settlement risk. This was a step towards automated recurring payments.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 27, 2018

The Bank of England caught the financial services world’s attention when its Governor, Mark Carney, spoke about the central bank’s latest initiative to revamp and rebuild its real-time gross settlement (RTGS) system.

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