The government on Friday launched a Central Bank Digital Currency-based Digital Food Currency pilot in Puducherry, marking ...

A proposed GOP ban on a central bank digital currency (CBDC) could pump the brakes on grand visions to reshape electronic payment access around the Federal Reserve. Republican lawmakers pushed the ban ...

A survey from a central bank-focused think tank found that fewer than one in five central banks are inclined to issue a central bank digital currency, compared to 38% in 2022. Update (March 31 at 4:09 ...

US Senator Ted Cruz introduced a bill on March 26 to prohibit the Federal Reserve from issuing a central bank digital currency (CBDC). The “Anti-CBDC Surveillance State Act,” would prohibit the Fed ...

India's central bank Governor Shaktikanta Das has said that while their retail central bank digital currency (CBDC) pilot has over 5 million users, there should not be in any rush to roll out a system ...

Cambodia's Bakong is commonly pointed to as Southeast Asia's most successful CBDC, except it's not a CBDC. Southeast Asia has 11 countries with a combined population of 700 million people, including ...

The Centre launched a digital currency pilot for giving out food subsidies in the union territory of Puducherry.

A new law in North Carolina seeks to ban CBDCs in the state, but there are questions about whether the new legislation is even legal. Privacy and sovereignty concerns ...

This content is contributed or sourced from third parties but has been subject to Finextra editorial review. Central banks worldwide are accelerating retail CBDC (central bank digital currency) ...

How could practitioners assess the domestic financial stability implications of retail CBDC? This chapter identifies six key transmission channels through which CBDC can affect financial ...

This content has been selected, created and edited by the Finextra editorial team based upon its relevance and interest to our community. Herborg provided an overview of the report released by G+D in ...

LONDON, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 28: London, Bank of England. Photo by Chris J Ratcliffe According to Susanna Copson, Legal and Policy Officer at Big Brother Watch, “The case for a UK CBDC still has not been ...