
Digital Payments
Are central bank digital currencies a bad idea?
While they are being touted as the future, it’s time to rethink and reevaluate the role that CBDCs will play...
Spotify to expand its digital currency footprint with new hire
The company is hiring a new payments head, with digital currencies, CBDCs and decentralized ledger technology among the areas of...
Swiss central bank completes CBDC trial, downplays DLT
While the trial demonstrated the feasibility of a wholesale CBDC, the bank claimed that distributed ledger technology has not yet...
Toyota’s IT arm exploring digital currencies and blockchain
Toyota Systems has partnered with digital currency exchange DeCurret on the pilot, which will see the participation of the company’s...
G20 to lay down digital currency payments groundwork by year-end: report
G20 nations could begin accepting digital payments this year after leaders from the powerful nations recently decided to lay the...
Cambodia to launch digital currency as 11 banks sign up in support
Project Bakong will deploy blockchain-powered technology across Cambodia’s payment networks, and will feature a central bank digital currency.