CBDCs
China Starts Testing Digital Yuan for Salary Payments
China’s Xiong’an New Area, a district located approximately 60 miles southwest of Beijing and a testing ground for new economic ideas, will start allowing digital yuan for wage payments. “The Hash” team unpacks China’s ongoing pilot programs around the digital yuan and their possible impact on the global central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) markets.
House Financial Services Committee to Hold Hearing on Central Bank Digital Currency
Several crypto-related hearings are scheduled in the U.S. Congress this month. The first is being held Tuesday by the House of Financial Services Committee regarding central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). The White House is also reportedly unveiling a national strategy for countering domestic terrorism.
The Case for Digital Dollar
Joining “First Mover” is Stanford Graduate School of Business Professor of Finance Darrell Duffie, who testified at the recent Senate Banking Committee hearing on central bank digital currencies (CBDCs.
Una encuesta del BIS revela que los bancos centrales están interesados en que los turistas y no residentes utilicen las próximas CBDC.
“Los bancos centrales están considerando una variedad de acuerdos [multi-CBDC]”, escribieron los investigadores del BIS.
El Banco Central de Brasil retrasa dos años la fecha límite para la CBDC
BCB dijo que el cronograma para una CBDC depende de la evolución de sus proyectos actuales y del panorama internacional.
El Banco Central de Nigeria podría lanzar un programa piloto de moneda digital en 2021
Un funcionario del banco central dijo que Nigeria ha estado investigando las CBDC durante dos años.
Will a Digital Dollar Solve the Crypto Ransomware Problem?
Responding to recent high-profile ransomware attacks on major food and oil companies, U.S. lawmakers are amping up their criticism of bitcoin and cryptocurrencies. Dave Jevans of CipherTrace, which tracks crypto crime and anti-money laundering trends, discusses the potential solutions to cyberattacks and whether having a digital dollar is one of them.
Elizabeth Warren, US Lawmakers Put Bitcoin on Trial in Senate CBDC Hearing
CoinDesk’s Nikhilesh De on the main takeaways from Wednesday’s Senate Banking Committee hearing where Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren and other lawmakers grilled four witnesses about bitcoin and their views on whether to develop a U.S. Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) or “digital dollar.”
Las monedas estables y las CBDC no representan un riesgo inherente para la estabilidad financiera, afirma un ejecutivo del Banco de Inglaterra
Christina Segal-Knowles minimizó las preocupaciones de que el modelo bancario tradicional podría verse socavado.
