Currency
Cuban central bank to license crypto service providers
Resolution may encourage greater use of virtual currencies for remittances
Central African Republic makes cryptocurrency legal tender
War-torn state is second country to give crypto official status, after El Salvador
Fiji launches $7 varnished banknote
Reserve Bank issues commemorative note to celebrate rugby sevens squads
Are central banks ahead of banknote counterfeiters?
Antti Heinonen analyses data on recent trends in counterfeiting
Honduras central bank warns on bitcoin again
Central American country will not follow El Salvador in making bitcoin legal tender, BCH says
Barbados to make switch to polymer
Redesigned banknotes will circulate by end of year, says governor
Argentina suspends minting of coins
Global commodities inflation makes production too costly
Digital money and central banks
Central banks must reflect on the monetary policy, regulatory and financial stability implications from crypto assets, stablecoins and CBDCs to stay relevant in the digital age of money
The ECCB’s DCash outage: what went wrong?
Experts discuss security certificate problems that may have derailed DCash pilot
ECCB says pilot CBDC will return next week
Barbados firm Bitt still working on DCash project after outage beginning on January 14
Union objects to Colombian central bank’s branch closures
Bank of the Republic is converting some regional offices to cultural centres, closing treasuries
Pilot CBDC outage due to expired certificate, ECCB says
Blockchain network requires update before digital currency can come back online
Liberian central bank publicly burns outdated currency
Move aims to rebuild public trust after long-running “missing banknote” controversy
How Afghanistan’s central bank can help prevent famine
Rules could be devised to allow the New York Fed to ease the acute US dollar banknotes shortage, writes Warren Coats
Eastern Caribbean digital currency remains offline
DCash has been shut down since January 14, as firm says it has “identified problem”
IMF warns El Salvador on crypto
Executive board recommends “removing bitcoin’s legal tender status”
Currency Benchmarks 2021 – presentation
Central Banking’s currency subject matter specialist Rachael King speaks with Chris Jeffery about circulation, impact of Covid-19, forecasting, costs and resourcing, security and design, sustainability, and more
Ecuador brings in anti-theft dyes
Latin American country faces increasing crime rates including attacks on ATMs
Japan launches Oceania CBDC study
Fintech firm Soramitsu will examine outlook for digital currencies in four Pacific island states
ECCB digital currency suffers outage
Eastern Caribbean’s DCash disrupted by unspecified “technical issue”
Inside the Bank of Israel’s emergency cash supply exercises
Amir Safranovich and Meir Bitton describe how the central bank ensures the financial system is always ready in case of an emergency