The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is preparing to launch a central bank digital currency. The Gulf nation announced its digital currency plans Sunday (Feb. 12)...
The way people pay for things is changing as the nature of money itself transforms. Fearing they may one day be left behind as digital,...
The Bank of England and U.K. Treasury are exploring the feasibility of an official “Britcoin.” This, as a formal consultation launched Tuesday (Feb. 7) aims...
A digital euro should complement, not replace, other electronic payment methods or cash. So said European Central Bank (ECB) Executive Board Member Fabio Panetta in...
Leave it to the lofty inspirations of the World Economic Forum to come up with the Universal Digital Payments Network. This, as the new cross-border...
The People’s Bank of China has reportedly enabled Android users to make offline payments using digital yuan. With a new function added to the bank’s...
A digital pound consultation is expected to be published in “weeks not months.” The comments were made by city minister Andrew Griffith during a Treasury...
The Bahamas’ two-year-old digital currency project has gotten off to a slow start. The reasons are twofold, according to a Saturday (Jan. 14) Bloomberg News...
The Bank of Tanzania is cautiously readying a central bank digital currency (CBDC). The country’s central bank said it will “continue to monitor, research and...