Payments
El Salvador’s bitcoin currency experiment
Move by first nation to approve bitcoin as legal tender raises important issues
BoE suspends dividend as capital falls below target
Growth of intangible assets due to RTGS project caused loss-absorbing capital to drop
RBA should improve RTGS risk management – internal report
Australian central bank’s payments division says it is concentrating on upgrading cyber resilience
CBDC: the case for ‘wait and see’
Despite growing interest, some central banks are staying out of the digital currency game
BIS opens Nordic innovation hub
Stockholm office is fifth in hub programme and involves four of the region’s central banks
The winners of the 2021 FinTech RegTech Global Awards
Fourth annual tech awards recognise excellence among central banks and the firms they work with
BoE’s Bailey says CBDCs could be ‘fundamental’
Innovation hub run by BoE and BIS hub likely to concentrate on CBDCs and payments, official says
DNB study finds Dutch expect to carry on using cash
Although payments are increasingly carried out by electronic means, citizens continue carrying cash
BIS and French and Swiss central banks announce joint CBDC project
Project Jura will link national CBDC initiatives in bid to facilitate cross-border payment
El Salvador to make bitcoin legal tender
President claims the move, a first for any country, will aid remittances and financial inclusion
Governance Benchmarks 2021 report – the frameworks that rule central banks
How are central banks governed? Benchmarking data offers insights on appointments, legal structures, powers, decision-making bodies, independence and more
Thailand’s central bank picks G+D for retail CBDC project
BoT will use Filia platform for proof-of-concept
FSB sets targets to tackle cross-border payments issues
Proposals are “foundational step” in G20 initiative to improve global payments
Dominican Republic’s central bank plans financial innovation hub
New technology is “indispensable tool” for financial inclusion, governor says
Riksbank starts work on CBDC with external firms
E-krona pilot project to test technical solution with Handelsbanken and TietoEVRY
Chinese CBDC could bolster renminbi internationalisation – Hui Feng
Academic believes digital currency efforts could facilitate renminbi’s international acceptance and ‘popularity’
Diem says it will ‘fade out’ stablecoin if Fed issues CBDC
Chief economist of Facebook-backed firm says public sector has “comparative advantage”
Bank of Korea to start CBDC trial in August
Central bank opts for two-tier model for retail digital currency
Sarb conducting feasibility study for retail CBDC
Central bank to investigate issuance of a “general-purpose” complement to cash
Brazilian central bank publishes CBDC guidelines
Model under consideration would be intermediated by national financial system
Benoît Cœuré on CBDCs, stablecoins and central bank fintech co-operation
BIS Innovation Hub chief voices concerns about the timing of stablecoin and CBDC roll-outs, fintech risks for supervisors and monetary policy, and details development plans for eight innovation locations
Powell announces forthcoming CBDC paper
Irrespective of US CBDC, Fed will help develop international standards, says chairman
Swedish and Norwegian central banks warn of cyber threats
Even small attacks can have major effects on stability, Norges Bank and Sveriges Riksbank say
Cash infrastructure as public good – implications for the cash cycle
Efforts are under way in the Eurosystem to safeguard cash infrastructure as a ‘public good’ even as transaction volumes have fallen significantly. How can policy-makers strike the right balance?