Latest CBDC News: Finextra Research

NextGen Nordics 2023: Speakers announced!

NextGen Nordics will return to Stockholm on 25 April 2023, and we will be welcoming a range of speakers who will discuss topics such as P27, cross border payments, open banking, BNPL, CBDCs, digital assets and Web 3.0.

27 March 2023

News/payments

ANZ to trial offline CBDC payments via smart cards

ANZ is partnering with two universities to trial offline CBDC payments via smart cards that can be loaded with funds and used like physical cash.

08 March 2023

News/payments

Offline CBDC could boost financial inclusion and privacy - Bank of Canada

An offline CBDC could offer a compliment to cash that would boost financial inclusion and preserve privacy, suggests a note from the Bank of Canada.

07 March 2023

News/crypto

Australian banks and fintechs to test use cases for CBDC

The Reserve Bank of Australia is kicking of 14 pilot projects to investigate potential use cases for a central bank digital currency.

02 March 2023

News/payments

Bank of England says digital pound "more likely than not"

Bank of England deputy governor Jon Cunlifffe has told a committee of MPs that a digital pound has a better than 50/50 chance of coming to fruition.

28 February 2023

News/crypto

CBDC in the Nordics: What is the status in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland and Iceland?

Ahead of NextGen Nordics, which will return to Stockholm on 25 April 2023, Finextra will be publishing a series of ‘sneak peeks’, covering the topics and interviewing the panellists speaking at the event.

24 February 2023

News/crypto

BIS chief floats unified programmable ledger to turbocharge payments innovation

A unified programmable ledger could unleash an explosion of innovation in payments and money comparable to the arrival of the smartphone, according to Bank for International Settlements general manager Agustín Carstens.

23 February 2023

News/payments

Bank of Japan kicks off CBDC pilot

Following a two-year investigation phase, the Bank of Japan is kicking off pilot trials of a digital yen.

20 February 2023

Finextra TV/predictions

Digitalisation's impact on banks in 2023

The future of cloud migration and "platformification," embedded finance, and the growth of CBDCs are explored in this episode of our PREDICT 2023 series by Gareth Wilson, Executive Vice President, Head of UK Banking and Capital Markets, Capgemini.

09 February 2023

News/payments

NextGen Nordics 2023: Back and better than ever

Finextra will be back in Stockholm to bring the new world of Nordic banking to life for the NextGen Nordics 2023 conference on the 25th of April.

03 February 2023

News/inclusion

India's biggest retailer trials digital rupee

India's CBDC plans have taken a step forward with news that the country's largest retailer, Reliance Retail, has agreed to start accepting digital rupee payments.

03 February 2023

News/payments

Universal Digital Payments Network launched at Davos

A Universal Digital Payments Network (UDPN) for stablecoins and Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) was launched at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos. The network aims to provide interoperability between these digital currencies.

20 January 2023

Company update/people

Digital Dollar Project makes hires

The Digital Dollar Project ("DDP"), a non-profit focused on catalyzing the public discussion around a U.S. CBDC, today announced new hires to support the strategic growth of its policy research and experimentation teams.

18 January 2023

News/crypto

China’s e-CNY app launches offline payments

China’s digital yuan app has released a function which allows payments to be made from mobile phones while offline and without any battery left on the device.

13 January 2023

News/crypto

Boston Fed and MIT shutter CBDC ‘Project Hamilton’

The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston has released a statement announcing that research into the technical feasibility of a potential digital dollar has concluded.

23 December 2022

News/crypto

Banque de France, HSBC, IBM test interoperability of wholesale CBDC

Following experiments demonstrating that DLT can be used with existing networks to complete CBDC financial transactions in real-time, Banque de France, HSBC and IBM have published a paper exploring their key findings.

16 December 2022

News/regulation

Edinburgh Reforms: UK government announces widespread transformation for financial sector

The Chancellor of Exchequer Jeremy Hunt has announced The Edinburgh Reforms, a set of developments to catalyse competition and growth in the UK FS sector, that includes moves on a CBDC and the move to Net Zero.

09 December 2022