North America

As central banks around the world explore central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), the Bank of Canada (BOC) is keen to...

On Friday, the Central Bank of the United Kingdom, the Bank of England made the announcement that it had arrived...

The Bank of Canada has partnered with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to work on a 12-month research project...

Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro has announced that the country’s minimum wage would now be pegged to the value of half...

Alex Gladstein, of the Human Rights Foundation, explained in an article last year that crypto‐​critics should look past their day‐​to‐​day...

The introduction of Libra, Facebook’s attempt at digital currency in 2019, energized digital asset proponents who said the new technology...

If you can’t beat them, copy them. At least, that partly explains why central banks in nine countries have introduced...

This timeline was disclosed with the authorities Twitter accounts of the reserve bank in addition to that nation’s head of...

The concern about CBDCs for retail payments is that they will compete for deposit funding thereby crowding out banking and...

The Bank of Mexico wants to have its own digital currency circulating sometime in the next two years, in an...