Digital yuan pilot moves to southern Hainan province
In its latest test, the PBoC has partnered with the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China’s Haikou branch and the Sansha city municipal government.
In its latest test, the PBoC has partnered with the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China’s Haikou branch and the Sansha city municipal government.
The controllable anonymity will protect the central bank digital currency against criminal use and ensure the bank can track all payments the users make, according to a central bank official.
China and the United Arab Emirates have joined a research initiative that studies the feasibility of a central bank digital currency.
Unlike in Shenzhen, Beijing and Suzhou, the People’s Bank of China is expanding beyond the use of smartphones to make digital yuan payments.
China had learned a lesson from the hostile reception Libra, now Diem, has received globally, according to the former governor of the People’s Bank of China.
Chinese residents in the city of Suzhou made close to 20,000 transactions in a digital yuan trial on e-commerce giant JD.com.
Hong Kong’s central bank has been working with China’s digital currency institute to trial the use of the digital yuan on cross-border payments.
The PBoC’s Digital Currency Research Institute announced that it was planning to build a ‘legal digital currency test zone’ in Beijing.
Peoples Bank of China governor Yi Gang gave several announcements regarding the DC/EP at Hong Kong Fintech week–Yi Gang's reports indicate progress.
The digital yuan is not a digital currency like Bitcoin, but a virtual fiat currency issued and controlled by the People's Bank of China.
In a new draft law, the bank proposed banning any yuan-pegged digital tokens, effectively killing off any competitor to its central bank digital currency.
The central bank detailed a recent case in which its Huizhou City branch uncovered a cross-border online gambling operation that relied on USDT for funds transfer.