Fireblocks joins Digital Pound Foundation’s membership community
We are very pleased to announce the addition of Fireblocks to the Digital Pound Foundation’s membership community. Fireblocks joins the Foundation as a corporate member and will also take part in the Policy, Legal and Regulatory Working Group. Fireblocks, an enterprise platform to manage digital asset operations and build innovative businesses on the blockchain, is […]
Quant launches Overledger Platform
Source: Quant Today, we unveiled Overledger Platform, making the same enterprise-grade technology that has underpinned our projects with institutional and central bank customers to-date, accessible to large enterprises, SMEs and developers for the first time. We are proud to unveil Overledger Platform: the infrastructure used in Project Rosalind – the Bank of England and Bank for International Settlements’ […]
Brazilian Central Bank Adds Crypto Exchange Mercado Bitcoin in CBDC Pilot Including Mastercard
Source: Coindesk Brazil’s central bank authorized on Thursday the largest local crypto exchange, Mercado Bitcoin, to participate in the pilot of the digital real, the South American country’s central bank digital currency (CBDC). The consortium led by Mercado Bitcoin counts Mastercard, broker Genial, registrar Cerc and financial software fintech Sinqia as partners, local newspaper Valor reported. […]
Amazon Collaborating in Pilot Program for New CBDC Proposed by IMF and Central Banks
Source: The Daily Hodl The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has published a whitepaper that proposes conditions for the use of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), tokenized bank deposits and stablecoins. The whitepaper was produced in collaboration with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Banca d’Italia, and the Bank of Korea, and is currently paired with […]
IMF promotes XC platform for tokenized cross border payments
Source: Ledger Insights Yesterday, the IMF published a paper building on last year’s proposal for XC, a platform to create a global centralized ledger for cross-border payments. The platform would allow commercial banks and other payment providers to participate alongside central banks and likely forgo the need for multiple wholesale central bank digital currency (CBDC) projects. Although a […]
IMF working on global central bank digital currency platform
Source: Reuters The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is working on a platform for central bank digital currencies (CDBCs) to enable transactions between countries, IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said on Monday. “CBDCs should not be fragmented national propositions… To have more efficient and fairer transactions we need systems that connect countries: we need interoperability,” Georgieva […]
Quant collaborates with BIS and the Bank of England on Project Rosalind
Source: Quant We’re proud to announce our role as part of the vendor team for Project Rosalind. The project, led by the Bank for International Settlements and the Bank of England, explored how application programming interfaces could be used for central bank digital currency systems. Project Rosalind, directed by the BIS Innovation Hub London Centre, […]
Ripple and Peersyst Partner with Colombia’s Banco de la República in Advancing the Implementation and Utilization of Blockchain Technology
Source: Ripple The pilot program will evaluate high value payments use cases using the Ripple CBDC Platform based on the core technology of the XRP Ledger Ripple, the leader in enterprise blockchain and crypto solutions, announced today its collaboration with the Banco de la República, Colombia’s Central Bank, to explore blockchain technology use cases. The […]
The Nature of Money: The Role of Currency in the Digital Era | Poundcast Episode 9
In episode 9, our host Jannah Patchay speaks to Kene Ezeji-Okoye, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Millicent Labs. In this episode, Jannah and Kene discuss the rise of digital currencies in the context of digital fiat, how central banks reacted to the advent of stablecoins and in particular the potential threat posed by Facebook’s Libra / […]
CBDCs can help protect against surveillance capitalism
Source: OMFIF, written by Lewis McLellan Among digital privacy advocates, the launch of central bank digital currencies is often greeted with suspicion and alarm. On both sides of the Atlantic, there are concerns that CBDCs represent an opportunity for the state to obtain greater oversight over payments systems. In Europe, protesters demonstrated against a digital euro […]
