Articles tagged with digital currency
The Bank for International Settlements released its annual report arguing that stablecoins fall short of the standards required to function as money, with particularly stark warnings for emerging market economies where adoption is growing fastest.
As the United States debates whether to pursue a digital dollar at all, Europe and China are executing fundamentally different visions of digital currency — and the divergence could reshape global financial infrastructure.
Hong Kong's central bank is piloting a wholesale CBDC for after-hours derivatives settlement, demonstrating how programmable central bank money could transform financial market infrastructure.
A consortium including Visa, Mastercard, and major banks launched a global stablecoin initiative, marking the moment when the payment card networks officially embraced blockchain-based settlement as core infrastructure.