Fintech
Carstens advances vision for future tokenised financial system
‘Finternet’ proposal envisages payments across linked unified ledgers
Bank of Israel to launch CBDC sandbox
Central bank will invite banks and fintechs to experiment with API, deputy governor says
CBDCs could increase financial instability, Fed paper says
Central banks should consider price and quantity tools to mitigate risks, researchers say
Digital payments in Saudi Arabia rise to 70% of retail transactions
Transactions processed through national payment systems hit 10.8 billion
BIS and central banks develop AI tool to mine climate data
Hallucinations “do not seem” to impact results of initiative with Bank of Spain, ECB and Bundesbank
Fintech Benchmarks 2024 – model banks analysis
Data reveals how advanced and emerging economy central banks structure their fintech functions
HKMA launches next phase of CBDC pilot and sandbox
Hong Kong project will explore programmability, tokenisation and atomic settlement
Has mobile money achieved what retail CBDCs aspire to?
Central Banking Spring Meetings: Fintech panellists discuss financial inclusion and bank casualties
Fintech Benchmarks 2024 report – the promise and threat of AI
Benchmark data reveals how central banks are developing CBDC, tapping into AI tools and using cloud services to boost their work
Asian central banks co-ordinating CBDC work in ‘near real time’
RBI deputy governor says Seacen members tend to use public-key cryptography in their design
Turkey’s digital lira to use ‘programmable payments’
Intermediaries will offer related services, though these may differ across providers
EU considering shift to T+1 or T+0 – Cipollone
ECB board member says markets are on brink of “significant shift” in digital settlement
US sanctions firms for smuggling tech to Iran’s central bank
Central bank subsidiary that developed Iran’s digital currency platform among those targeted
Hong Kong issues world’s first multi-currency digital bond
Digital green bonds available in US dollars, Hong Kong dollars, euros and yuan
Russia to onboard 17 more banks in digital ruble trials
Central bank in talks with "friendly countries" to link with their CBDCs and payments systems
Head of Romania’s central bank ‘deepfaked’ by scammers
NBR says fraudsters’ use of AI-generated video points to increasing risks from manipulated imagery
Central banks, FMIs and the ‘green’ agenda
Collective efforts are needed to transform the environmental footprint of payment networks, writes Biagio Bossone
Russia hosts Brics talks over cross-border use of CBDCs
Summit takes place in Moscow with bloc’s new Middle Eastern and African members
Public perception is key for stablecoin peg – BIS paper
Market sentiment is important in determining whether currencies remain at par with fiat money
CBDC is inevitable
Central bank digital currency should be thought of as a platform rather than a product, writes Dave Birch
‘Digital pound’ enters next stage of design phase
BoE and Treasury outline how CBDC could work and try to allay concerns
Venezuela shuts down state cryptocurrency
Petro overseer had been embroiled in scandals, including over $21.2 billion of missing oil payments
RBI proposes self-regulation for fintechs
Move comes as India hailed as one of sector’s “most significant operating countries”
Levelling the playing field for stablecoins
Regulatory asymmetries are a barrier to innovation in digital payments