Bank of Japan has announced the launch of a new CBDC research team, which will continue the work of its previous CBDC research team. The Bank of Japan announced on July 20 that it had formed a new team to accelerate research into the feasibility of central bank digital currencies (CBDC). The team takes over…
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The third decade of the 21st century will make cryptocurrency the main payment method worldwide because of its benefits over fiat. The world has been slowly recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic, while some countries are bracing themselves for a potential second wave, but the economic downturn in many fields is imminent. This has spurred debates…
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Advances in payment settlements and decentralized ledger technology are driving central banks to consider digital currencies, according to a recent Bank of Korea report. South Korea’s central bank, the Bank of Korea, has conducted new research and analysis on the progress of central bank digital currencies — or CBDCs — around the world. The bank…
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European Central Bank executive board member Yves Mersch believes that the main impediment for CBDC is philosophical rather than technological. A number of countries such as China and Sweden are already experimenting with central bank digital currencies, which are also referred to as CBDCs. The implementation of this new type of money requires a number of aspects…
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If Bitcoin weathers the current financial storm, our monetary system will be on the brink of dramatic changes or even a revolution. We are at a turning point in history. The coming months will show how institutional investors will react in the medium term to the countless rescue packages in the wake of the coronavirus…
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Central banks affect decentralized finance, and decentralized finance affects central banks. Which could benefit from this ideological war? Philip Coggan, a British business journalist and news correspondent who writes for The Economist, once mentioned, “Modern money is debt and debt is money.” Few would disagree with this claim. Yes, the vast majority of money circulating…
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China brings together 15 organizations to develop national standards for blockchain and DLT. The Chinese government and its federal authorities are getting increasingly involved in the blockchain space to push forward innovation throughout the country. In the latest, the government released an official notice stating that they have put together a technical committee of 15…
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Not all banks appear to be complying with the Supreme Court’s ruling in favor of providing services to crypto-related firms. Earlier this month, India’s Supreme Court delivered its verdict in a landmark case that promised to usher in a bullish era for cryptocurrency in the country. The Court ruled to overturn a circular from the…
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The Supreme Court of India strikes down the central bank’s controversial ban on banks’ dealings with crypto businesses. The Supreme Court of India has struck down the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) controversial ban on banks’ dealings with crypto-related firms. The court’s bench of Justices Rohinton Nariman, S Ravindra Bhat, and V Ramasubramanian, delivered the…
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A working paper raises concerns about a run on the banks in times of financial instability, with tiered interest rates proposed as a solution. The European Central Bank (ECB) remains open to the idea of a digital euro equivalent but would want to stop citizens holding too much of it. That was the conclusion of…
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