Tagged: central banks

December 2, 2021 @ 7:58 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Payments are faster and easier than ever before, the Chainalysis team writes in a blog post. As taps and texts continue to overtake cash and checks, they’re “increasingly digital, too,” the Chainalysis team adds while noting that thanks to the blockchain or distributed ledger tech… Read More

October 4, 2021 @ 8:33 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Catherine Gu, Global CBDC Product Lead at Visa (NYSE: V) writes in a blog post that you should try imagining splitting the check with your friends, like when everyone at the table may be using a different “type of money” — some using a central bank… Read More

July 1, 2021 @ 7:08 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at digital assets firm Kraken has released a new report on Inflation, which they refer to as the “insidious thief.” As mentioned in a blog post by Kraken, the concept of inflation is “front and center again for many market participants, but not… Read More

January 5, 2021 @ 10:04 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS), a global financial institution that’s owned by reserve banks and aims to “foster international monetary and financial cooperation and serves as a bank for central banks,” is reportedly developing a data-streaming prototype that will be able to handle 2,000… Read More

August 7, 2020 @ 10:11 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI), the nation’s central bank that controls the issue and supply of the Indian rupee, is reportedly working on an offline digital transactions pilot, in order to get more consumers in rural areas, without internet connections, to adopt virtual payments…. Read More

July 26, 2020 @ 8:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

  We recently caught up with Sky Guo, a founding member at the OMFIF Digital Monetary Institute, the global central banking think tank that assists policymakers with understanding central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). Guo, who’s also the founder of Cypherium, which focuses on enabling interoperability… Read More

July 26, 2020 @ 6:41 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

  The Bank for International Settlements (BIS), a global financial institution owned by reserve banks that aims to support international monetary and financial cooperation and acts as a bank for central banks, notes that as financial technology, or financial innovation and digitalization, begin to transform… Read More

June 15, 2020 @ 11:52 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Many developing and developed countries across the globe are considering or already developing and testing their own central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). China might be creating an East Asia virtual currency platform, according to a report from the Nikkei Asian Review. The new currency might… Read More

May 22, 2020 @ 12:34 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Grayscale Investments, a subsidiary of the Digital Currency Group (DCG), has published a report which argues that legacy banking infrastructure has made it difficult to distribute stimulus money, following the COVID-19 outbreak. The report states: “Central bank digital currencies [CBDCs] have the potential to streamline… Read More