As part of our early-year focus on tokenisation and the game of catch-up being played by central banks to launch their own digital currencies (CBDCs) and related systems of regulation, we offer an excerpt from a news story by or friends at Finextra: An investigation into the use of multiple wholesale CBDCs for cross-border payments […]
Digital financial systems – “digital money” for want of a better phrase – will dominate the future, as we’ve regularly opined here in our News section. Close to 80 percent of the world’s central banks are either not allowed to issue a digital currency under their existing laws, or the legal framework is not clear, […]
As promised, more from the changing digital asset landscape. Tokens – the big “new” thing for 2021– and central bank digital currencies are leading the mainstream’s charge to catch up. Our friends at Finextra report: As part of an experimental programme led by the Banque de France, more than ten transactions on fund units, for […]
As we reported earlier this month, the nature of money is changing. Travellers’ cheques are already ancient history, cash is on the way out – and the way monetary systems are organised seem highly likely to be next. Here’s an extract from a report here a couple of weeks ago: It may not be the […]
It may not be the coming thing, but it is a thing that is certainly coming. Central banks around the world are set to launch their own digital currencies. In 2018, the preparation was done for a “Britcoin” launched by the Bank of England. The product is wrapped up in metaphorical cling film, and ready […]