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Digital Currencies Heat Up As World’s Leading Central Banks Join Forces to Explore New Financial Infrastructure

Several central banks have announced the formation of an official group to assess potential use cases for central bank digital…

January 21, 2020

Digital Dollar Project Officially Kicks Off to Push Exploration of New US Currency

Christopher Giancarlo, former Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, along with Charles Giancarlo and Daniel Gorfine, are teaming up…

January 19, 2020

Head of IMF Highlights Digital Currencies As Top Priority in 2020 for Its 189 Member Countries

The head of the International Monetary Fund, economist Kristalina Georgieva, is listing the organization's top priorities for the new year.…

January 16, 2020

Rumors Circulating That Fed Will Announce Plans to Digitize the Dollar, Says Anthony Pompliano, As US and China Kick Off Historic Trade Deal

Rumors are swirling that the Federal Reserve plans to announce an initiative to digitize the US dollar, according to Anthony…

January 15, 2020

ECB Prez Christine Lagarde Says Central Bank Digital Currency Could Have Major Implications for the Financial Sector

In her first public remarks of the new year, European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde affirms that the ECB is…

January 8, 2020

Bundesbank Prez Reveals Purpose of Experiment With Central Bank Digital Currency: Report

Jens Weidmann, president of Bundesbank, the central bank of Germany, argues that the world’s leading financial institutions are still not…

January 3, 2020

IMF Says Countries Eyeing Central Bank Digital Currencies Break Down Into Three Types

This year, Facebook became the indisputable giant that sounded the bell on building a cryptocurrency for the masses. Amid controversy…

December 30, 2019

Tunisia Starts Rolling Out World’s First Paper-Backed Central Bank Digital Currency

The Central Bank of Tunisia has announced that it's testing the roll-out of its national currency onto a blockchain. The…

November 10, 2019

Binance Research Lifts Veil on China’s Digital Currency

In a new report from Binance Research, analysts probe why the People's Bank of China, the country's central bank, is…

August 29, 2019

China’s Central Bank Gears Up to Launch Digital Currency for Payments, Targets 2019

The People's Bank of China (PBOC) is planning to launch a state-backed cryptocurrency by the end of the year. According…

August 11, 2019