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1 Dec 2020 3 minute read 0 comments Craig Borysowich
Efficiency and speed in the processing of payments come from the availability and verifiability of payment data while that payment is in flight. In short, the transaction has the details of the sender and the receiver of the money, the amount of the...
29 Nov 2020 4 minute read 3 comments 101Blockchains
Central Bank Digital Currency is one of the most common mentions in the world of finance presently. Before diving into their definition, it is important to reflect on the context underlying the rise of Central Bank Digital Currencies. The financial c...
25 Nov 2020 3 minute read 1 comment Craig Borysowich
At the end of the day money is money, but with that said, there is are some very different contexts of money that become important in the implementation of a CBDC. Simply delineating between wholesale money or retail money and public versus private...
20 Nov 2020 6 minute read 7 comments Andrzej_0xa0
Public debate in Europe around CBDC got reactivated over the past weeks. Finance chiefs from the euro zone stated that more regime is needed to control digital currencies and keep private initiatives such as Facbook’s Libra from treating financial st...
20 Nov 2020 1 minute read 12 comments author_nan
Multinational investment bank Goldman Sachs, in a report made public on Nov. 17, said that it expects China’s digital yuan CBDC to reach 1 billion users within 10 years. According to the report, the digital yuan would reach 1 billion users and accou...
20 Nov 2020 2 minute read 11 comments PVM
The Ukrainian Government is planning to overcome France in the effort to adopt a Central Banking Digital Currenty (CBDC) and to make the country a crypto leader in Europe. The Ukraine is currently ranked number one in the Global Crypto Adoption Index...
18 Nov 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Allen Walters
This project will focus on interbank transactions. This is different from the previous Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) project from Banque de France. CBDC focuses on the development of a "stable coin" that will represent a digital form of bankno...
14 Nov 2020 3 minute read 1 comment Tomadachi
Someone wiser than me once said, "Listen to people when they are angry, because that is when the real truth comes out." Old poets however, from Chaucer to Ebsworth, have suggested humour is the place where truth can be found, spawning the adage: "Ma...
13 Nov 2020 1 minute read 0 comments author_nan
European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde, in a virtual panel discussion on central banking held on Nov. 12, said that it was “her hunch” that a digital euro would be released in a few years. Lagarde was one of the speakers in a panel discus...
10 Nov 2020 1 minute read 0 comments dGen
Jonas Gross and his colleagues at the Frankfurt School Blockchain Center are at the forefront of programmable money and Central Bank Digital Currency research. We were lucky enough to have their insights in our recent report, "CBDCs: Geopolitical Ram...
