OANDA reports the U.S. dollar's dominance is threatened by geopolitical shifts, digital currencies, and rival economies, ...

As digital technologies increasingly act as the rails upon which money moves — through stablecoins, tokenized assets, and ...

Bitcoin then served as the model for digital currencies not due to being the initial one, but due to being fundamental. It ...

The National Bank of Rwanda (BNR) is exploring the development of a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) - a digital version of the Rwandan franc (e-Franc-Rwandais).On August 1, BNR launched a retail ...

While the world remains focused on the tragic situation in Ukraine, the Biden administration is preparing to launch America’s first government-backed digital currency. If a new digital dollar is ...

Bitcoin, the pioneering digital currency, is coming off a record-breaking year, surpassing $100,000 for the first time in its 16-year history last December.

"Central-bank digital currency" doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue. But you might want to get used to saying it. These so-called CBDCs, or digital versions of dollars, yuan, euros, yen or any ...

Imagine a future where your paycheck arrives in your wallet before your coffee order finishes brewing, where remittances skip ...

As technology continues to revolutionize the way people live, work and spend, central banks around the globe have kicked off efforts to reinvent their local currencies for the digital era. Now ...

On the surface, an American or European digital currency hardly seems necessary. After all, people in the developed world certainly have no lack of digital means to get paid and to make payments.

But the idea, in reality, goes further: creating a digital currency outside the system, which only requires the participation of the central bank that issues it (and in fact, not even having a ...

The push to develop a digital currency began in 2014, according to the People’s Bank of China. Authorities spent six years researching the project before launching pilot programs this year in ...