
Central Bank Digital Currency
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24 August, 2024
Cambodia’s Bakong app boosts tourism by enabling payments for 3.3M locations
The National Bank of Cambodia confirmed a commitment to setting up QR locations nationwide to streamline payments using the Bakong...
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23 August, 2024
Ghana issues draft digital asset guidelines
The new guidelines require VASPs to obtain licenses from the SEC, abide by AML rules and report crimes while entitling...
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23 August, 2024
Jamaica’s largest bank casts doubt on CBDC
The National Commercial Bank, the only Jamaican bank that currently offers a CBDC wallet, says that while its digital banking...
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21 August, 2024
Tokenized deposits gaining traction in India, central bank says
Michael Debabrata Patra, deputy governor of the RBI, believes that tokenized deposits have various use cases in cross-border and domestic...
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19 August, 2024
Replacement of bank deposits by CBDC an area of key interest for deposit insurers: RBI
At a recent International Association of Deposit Insurers event, Michael Debabrata Patra, deputy governor of RBI, said that CBDC will...
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19 August, 2024
Kyrgyzstan proposes new legislation to legalize CBDC
In April, the Kyrgyz Central Bank conducted a trial for the digital som and has now opened a public consultation...