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CBDCs Don’t Fix Broken Monetary Policy, Say Execs at Stablecoin Saga

22.6.2020
CBDCs promise to speed up existing systems but are unlikely to change the direction central banks have already been taking

Thai Central Bank Taps Cement Company for First Digital Currency Payments

20.6.2020
The Bank of Thailand is integrating a CBDC payments system into the financials of the country’s oldest cement company in an extension of its Inthanon project

US Fed Chair Says Private Entities Should Not Help Design Central Bank Digital Currencies

17.6.2020
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said he believes central banks would have to design and implement CBDCs, not private entities

Decred Co-Founder: CBDCs Can Facilitate Crony Capitalism

17.6.2020
Co-founder of Decred believes that the CBDCs could create greater information asymmetries that would benefit ruling elites

In the Wildcat Era of Stablecoins, Commercial Banks Have New Rails to Ride

16.6.2020
Today's stablecoin market mirrors the “wildcat banking” era of the mid-1800s, when banks printed their own dollars. Like then, federal intervention is likely

Canada’s Central Bank Is Serious About Designing a CBDC, Job Posting Reveals

16.6.2020
The Bank of Canada is preparing to design its own central bank digital currency (CDBC), detailing its plans in a new job posting

Blockchain Bites: JPMorgan on Bitcoin, South Korea on CBDCs and the Porn Industry on Crypto

15.6.2020
JPMorgan bond analysts think bitcoin has passed its first stress test while South Korea's central bank is continuing to research CBDCs

Korea’s Central Bank Forms Legal Panel to Advise on Possible Digital Currency Launch

15.6.2020
The Bank of Korea has set up a legal panel to advise on possible regulatory sticking points for a future CBDC issuance

Blockchain Bites: CBDCs on Capitol Hill, Custody Battles and Smart Drugs

11.6.2020
Lawmakers will convene today to discuss the possibility of using digital dollars to distribute coronavirus relief, while Filecoin releases its new testnet

Libra Is Ready for the Digital Money ‘Space Race’: Dante Disparte

10.6.2020
Libra's most vexing challenge may be juggling inclusion and compliance. But policy chief Dante Disparte says the project is not giving up on reaching the unbanked

Blockchain Bites: Why UN and Federal Reserve Experts Think CBDCs Could Kill Commercial Banking

5.6.2020
U.N. and Federal Reserve experts think CBDCs can compete with commercial banks, New York and France enter a regulatory agreement while Europol has Wasabi Wallet concerns

Digital Currencies Could Replace Low-Interest Bank Accounts, Says UN Expert

5.6.2020
Low-interest rates have removed one of the few remaining incentives for holding a bank account, meaning digital currency could be a better alternative, argues a UN expert

Ousting the Greenback: USD Still King as BTC and CBDCs Mount Challenge

4.6.2020
The advent of digital money will threaten the U.S. dollar’s global dominance, but it won’t be easy to dethrone the current global reserve currency

CBDCs With a Twist: The Public-Private Solutions Needed for Adoption

2.6.2020
Crypto pundits believe that central bank digital currencies based on public-private partnerships could see the light of day much sooner, as many solutions under development use the approach

Digital Dollar Project Calls for 2-Tiered Distribution System in First White Paper for US CBDC

29.5.2020
The Digital Dollar Project's first white paper describes how a two-tiered system underpinning a tokenized dollar could modernize the U.S. financial system

Grayscale: Central Bank Digital Currencies Will ‘Neither Replace nor Harm Scarce, Uncompromising Bitcoin’

28.5.2020
Central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) pose no threat to Bitcoin’s value proposition, instead, they will spur its growth toward mass adoption. In a new report, Grayscale Investments said CBDCs will never replace BTC because unlike the top cryptocurrency, they can be inflationary and are open...

Central Banks Could Partner with Private Sector on CBDCs

26.5.2020
The Euro symbol in front of the European Central Bank. The idea of central banks running the entire central bank digital currency (CBDCs) show is "out the door," and is being replaced by the private-public partnership, according to Tommaso Mancini-Griffoli, Deputy Division Chief in...