Posts Tagged ‘CBDC’
Cyber attacks threaten market integrity, warns IMF
Financial institutions and tech developers must protect the emerging Open Banking landscape from cybercrime and ignorance around third-party data interpretation, the IMF warned.
Read MoreDigital Dollar Project launches technical sandbox for CBDCs
The sandbox program will be a “collaborative space” to explore technological and policy approaches to a US central bank digital currency.
Read MoreRiksbank: An e-krona could integrate into banks’ existing internal systems
Sweden’s central bank came to the conclusion following a number of technical tests during the second phase of the e-krona pilot project.
Read MoreInsight: Three trends driving change in payments
Finastra’s Axel Zingsem explains why instant payments, CBDCs and digital identity are set to be catalysts for change in Open Banking payments this year.
Read MoreBank of Canada and MIT collaborate on CBDC research project
The central bank will work with the MIT Media Lab’s Digital Currency Initiative to explore a potential CBDC.
Read MoreCentral banks ‘spurred’ by Facebook’s Libra to explore CBDCs
Speakers during the first panel session of Open Banking Expo’s CBDC Confex said that the prospect of a cryptocurrency being launched by the social media giant “piqued” central bank interest.
Read MoreQ&A: eCurrency’s Miles Au Yeung on what to learn from Bank of Jamaica’s CBDC project
Miles Au Yeung, chief markets officer at eCurrency, reveals the six characteristics a CBDC should have if it is to be trusted by the public, and why Bank of Jamaica’s CBDC project is such a “valuable” case study, ahead of his participation in Open Banking Expo’s Central Bank Digital Currencies virtual Confex on 10 March.…
Read MoreQ&A: HSBC global economist James Pomeroy reveals the central bank ‘to watch’ on CBDCs
James Pomeroy, global economist at HSBC, reveals his thoughts on Sweden’s Riksbank and explains what is the biggest hurdle when it comes to CBDCs entering the mainstream.
Read MoreQ&A: Digital Pound Foundation’s Jim Ford on taking CBDCs mainstream
Jim Ford, payments consultant at Digital Pound Foundation, reveals what needs to happen for CBDCs to become part of mainstream finance.
Read MoreQ&A: Aman Cheema of FIS on why CBDCs are an ‘historic opportunity’
Aman Cheema, senior vice president and general manager, global real-time payments at FIS considers whether CBDCs will change the balance of power of global reserve currencies, and explains the work FIS is doing on CBDCs.
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