Project Promissa: A New Collaboration Between World Bank, Swiss National Bank and the BIS Innovation Hub to Test Financial Instrument Tokenization
Project Promissa, a new collaboration announced between the BIS Innovation Hub Swiss Centre, the Swiss National Bank, and the World Bank, is spearheading an experiment to revolutionise the way financial instruments, particularly promissory notes, are managed. These notes, traditionally paper-based, are crucial in funding international financial institutions, including multilateral development banks. As part of a […]
Positive Money Partners with the Digital Pound Foundation to Raise Awareness for the Social and Economic Benefits of Digital Money
We are delighted to announce that Positive Money has joined the Digital Pound Foundation (DPF) as a strategic partner. Positive Money is an independent, not-for-profit research and campaigning organisation working towards a money and banking system that supports a fair, democratic and sustainable economy. The group is politically non-partisan and engages with policymakers from across […]
CBDC: an opportunity to re-think AML regulations?
On 6th December 2023, the Digital Pound Foundation hosted an in-person roundtable consisting of a selection of our Privacy and Identity Working Group members and external participants. The purpose of the roundtable was to share our thinking around the implementation of AML regulations in the digital age and gather feedback from the external participants. This […]
HM Treasury Publishes Comprehensive Review on the Future of Payments in the UK
In an in-depth review initiated on July 10th, the HM Treasury has conducted a thorough analysis of the UK’s payments landscape and published their Future of Payments Review. Over three months, the review team, led by a seasoned executive with diverse experience in the financial sector, engaged with about 150 stakeholders, including financial institutions, Fintechs, […]
Preserving the Singleness of Money in a Future Digital Currency Ecosystem
This event was jointly hosted with Fireblocks on 7 November 2023. During this webinar, Varun Paul announced a new paper entitled ‘Achieving Uniformity of Tokenized Money Through Smart Contracts’. You can download this paper here. About the webinar In the future, multiple different forms of money – both public and private, and both those currently […]
Mastercard’s CBDC Pilot Update: Bridging Ethereum and Digital Currencies
Mastercard, collaborating with the Reserve Bank of Australia and the Digital Finance Cooperative Research Centre, unveiled recent findings from their CBDC (Central Bank Digital Currency) experimental project on Thursday. A key highlight was a real-time transaction where an NFT (non-fungible token) was procured on the Ethereum blockchain using a “wrapped” variation of the CBDC, as […]
Quant Elevates Blockchain Security with its New Central Bank-Grade Key Management Solution
In a significant development for the banking and financial sector, a pioneering solution called Overledger Authorise has been launched to bolster the security of blockchain-based transactions. Historically, financial institutions have banked on advanced key management systems to shield data, applications, and transactions. The dawn of blockchain and digital assets posed a challenge: the prevailing key […]
Future Bank of England Deputy Governor: Crypto Not Gambling, Should Be Treated as a Financial Activity
Sarah Breeden, who assumes the role of deputy governor of financial stability at the Bank of England on November 1, has drawn attention to the potential risks associated with cryptocurrencies while also highlighting the advantages of the underlying technology. She made these remarks during a session with Parliament’s Treasury Committee. In her new position, Breeden, […]
Is safe the new sexy? CBDCs, trust and the evolution of money
Source: Mastercard Central banks have been exploring ways to issue their own digital currencies for years. Yet their efforts haven’t captured the public’s attention — for better or, more recently, for worse — like cryptocurrencies have. But central bank digital currencies, or CBDCs — essentially a digital version of fiat currency backed by a government […]
Why do we need a digital Pound?
On 28th June 2023, the Digital Pound Foundation hosted an in-person roundtable consisting of a selection of our Use Case Working Group members and external participants. The purpose of the roundtable was to share some of the potential use cases we have been developing for the digital Pound and gather feedback from the external participants. […]
