BIS is looking for a blockchain engineer to take a lead on its digital currency initiatives, which includes CBDC and digital security research.
The Bank of Korea is seeking a partner to help develop the architecture for a potential central bank digital currency.
The Bank for International Settlements appears to contradict its own prior statements in a new digital payments report.
The research explores how "central banking for all" via digital currency could affect commercial banks.
The filing details a way for fiat currencies, like the U.S. dollar, to be turned into a central bank digital currency.
Analysts from the U.K.'s central bank said private currencies could work alongside any future CBDC initiative if they offered real utility.
Sweden’s Riksbank says its digital currency researchers are the best in central banking.
The central bank is in favor of digital securities, but maintains cryptocurrencies shouldn't be allowed in Russia.
The pumping of trillions of dollars of fresh liquidity into the financial system recalled the central bank’s unprecedented efforts during the last crisis.
The outgoing governor of the Bank of England highlighted the potential risks to monetary governance if a central bank digital currency were to be launched in the U.K.
The Reserve Bank of India reportedly plans to return to the supreme court to ask for a review of a ruling that overturned its ban on banking access for crypto firms.
Nothing is more centralizing than a state’s control over decentralized technologies like blockchain and cryptocurrency, says law professor and blockchain adviser James Cooper.
The PIX payments system is coming to Brazil later this year, promising almost instant transfers for individuals and businesses.
A fifth of the world's population may well have access to a central bank digital currency in as little as three years, according to a BIS survey.
Reserve Bank of Australia officials are not yet convinced cryptocurrencies offer benefits over and above traditional means of payment.