Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) - Digital Pound Foundation

ECB President Christine Lagarde Supports Acceleration of Digital Euro Work

Executive Order on Ensuring Responsible Development of Digital Assets

CBDCs in the Americas: Implications, Opportunities and Adoption

Three Insights on CBDC Solutions from Global Researchers

What is SWIFT? What does ejecting Russia achieve? Can Russia evade sanctions through Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency assets?

Co-authored by Jannah Patchay, Jim Ford, Phil Kenworthy, and Jonathan Marriott Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the US, EU and UK have quickly moved to implement sanctions against Russian financial institutions, companies and individual oligarchs. After much discussion and negotiation, it was also announced that Russian banks would be ejected from the SWIFT network. Opinion […]

Central Bank of Brazil Selects Partners to Assist With CBDC

CBDC networks could defang sanction threats

The potential effects on the Israeli banking system of issuing a digital shekel

Philippines central bank to launch CBDC research effort

Digital Money: Global markets and the coming revolution in cross-border settlement

On 24 February, the Digital Pound Foundation hosted a webinar entitled ‘Global markets and the coming revolution in cross-border settlement’. The session discussed how new forms of digital money, including central bank digital currency, are opening up possibilities for wholesale cross-border transaction settlement. These new forms of money have the potential to revolutionise the FX […]

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Whilst most CBDC experiments have involved private sector technology providers, the overwhelming majority of these experiments, to date, have not involved participation from other private sector actors. The Digital Pound Foundation is unique in proposing a model whereby the public and private sectors can fully engage in the design, development and adoption of a digital Pound, thus contributing to its successful roll-out and helping drive forward the UK’s transition to a digital economy.

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