In a panel discussion with the Brooking Institution, Governor of the Bank of England, Andrew Bailey said that stablecoins, Bitcoin, and other cryptocurrencies are difficult and...
There has been rapid progress on the CBDC end lately. China has reached the final phase and many other countries are walking the same path. The...
International Monetary Fund’s [IMF] Deputy Managing Director Tao Zhang in his recent keynote address noted that CBDC was a “widely accessible, digital form of fiat money that...
Cryptocurrencies have come a long way from the days when they were almost universally looked at with fear and suspicion. Today, the trend has changed substantially,...
The Bank of England [BoE] has officially released a discussion paper on the issuance of a central bank digital currency [CBDC]. With this, the U.K becomes...
The United Kingdom has always had a neutral stance when it comes to cryptocurrencies, with firms wanting to make transactions bound by certain registration requirements in...
Bank of England‘s Deputy Governor Sir Jon Cunliffe is the latest one to address CBDCs and stablecoins. Referring to cryptocurrency as a new wave of technological...
Facebook‘s Libra sparked a heated conversation on stablecoins and central bank digital currency [CBDC] issuance across the globe and as a result, several central banks have...
At Computing‘s recent Cloud and Infrastructure Live event, Business 5.0 expert and senior advisor to IBM and McKinsey & Co., John Straw, predicted that blockchain would...
Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency project has been put on notice by the Bank of England, with the central bank declaring that the global payments platform will be...