Riksbank governor Stefan Ingves said there’s “good reason to believe” that more regulatory oversight of cryptocurrencies is in the pipeline.
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Digital yuan conceived to counter Alipay-like platforms, says former PBoC executive
Chinese “crypto dad” and ex PBoC director Yao Qian insists digital yuan is not a surveillance tool for the government.
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Central Bank of Sweden Invites Financial Market Actors for Second Phase of E-krona Pilot
Sveriges Riksbank, the central bank of Sweden, will carry out the next stage of its e-krona project with the help of two organizations from the
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Sweden moving forward in e-krona CBDC trials
Sweden will trial its CBDC with a live banking participant. The experimentation will involve participation between Riksbank and Handelsbanken, a retail bank chain based in
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Big tech, not cryptocurrency, is the real threat to central banks’ autonomy, Danish central bank governor says
Though Danmarks Nationalbank’s governor seems tempted to ignore cryptocurrencies, other banks in the country continue to launch new services based on crypto.
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In a sign of worldwide growing adoption, central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) programs are currently underway in many countries. West African giant Nigeria appears to
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