According to reports in local media, China’s central bank digital currency (CBDC) is now accepted as payment on the country’s most popular social networking and payment app, WeChat. The initiative’s stated goal is to increase the digital yuan’s popularity. After Alipay, WeChat is now the second payment platform to implement
Ajay Kumar Choudhary, Executive Director of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) let out glimpses of the CBDC plan. The central government of the nation and the union bank are in process of building CBDC as a replacement for crypto. Ajay is confident over the fact, CBDC will emerge as
Recently, the Australian central bank, which has been investigating the potential advantages of central bank digital currency (CBDC), published the planned use cases for CBDC and the identities of the providers who have been asked to participate in the live trial. The bank, known as the Reserve Bank of Australia
The Brazilian government’s plan to create a central bank-issued digital currency, known as the “digital real,” is making progress towards a likely release date. Local exchange Mercado Bitcoin announced the successful completion of a series of pilot tests. Aimed at analyzing the interoperability of a tokenized version of the digital
According to Agustin Carstens, the head of the Bank of International Settlements, there is no longer a compelling case for the adoption of digital currency as a replacement for fiat currency. Technology, Carstens claimed in an interview with Bloomberg TV, could not be relied upon as a reliable means of
As of April 1, 2023, the first consumer pilot of Russia’s central bank digital currency (CBDC) will be introduced by the Bank of Russia. According to Russia’s first deputy governor Olga Skorobogatova, digital ruble transactions involving 13 regional banks and many retailers will be introduced by the Russian central bank.
Many nations increased their work on central bank digital currency (CBDC) in the middle of 2022’s brutal bear market. Now, it seems that Japan is also heading on a similar path. It was recently announced that the Japan CBDC, or digital yen pilot programme, is scheduled to launch in April.
Although it has only been a few months since India joined the CBDC race. The government has no plans to accelerate its central bank digital currency (CBDC) trial. On February 8th, as per reports, the country’s new CBDC trial has already attracted 50,000 customers. And 5,000 merchants since the Reserve
The new head of the BIS Innovation Hub Cecilia Skingsley remarked on Monday that central bank digital currency (CBDC) would never have complete interconnectivity owing to cross-border limits. Despite the instability in the crypto business last year, such as the bankruptcy of the FTX crypto exchange. Skingsley notes the rebound
Over the Lunar New Year period, the Chinese Central Bank distributed CBDC worth millions of dollars around the nation. Around 200 events for the e-CNY were introduced around the nation during the holiday season. This is according to a report in the Global Times which is an English-language arm of
