Project Lithium will explore how a CBDC can reduce counterparty risk and trapped liquidity, increase capital efficiency and enable atomic settlement.
April 14, 2022The plan includes a regulatory framework for payment-related stablecoins, enhancements to the tax system, and greater engagement with the crypto industry.
April 7, 2022ADGM will launch a carbon trading exchange and clearinghouse, offering trading in tokenised carbon credits, carbon credit futures and green energy contracts.
April 1, 2022Under the current design, a two-tier system is being used that will allow users to exchange bank deposits with the TWD digital currency.
February 21, 2022The project is led by Tencent, with support from other companies, universities and institutions including Ant Group.
February 15, 2022In the second phase of Project Helvetia, a wholesale CBDC was used to test settlement of interbank, monetary policy and cross-border transactions with banking systems.
January 14, 2022The second phase of the ongoing CBDC trails between the Mainland and Hong Kong will involve connecting e-CNY wallets to Hong Kong’s FPS.
December 22, 2021CBDC is a critical and likely enabler for DLT-based securities settlement and collateral management, with stablecoins providing a possible alternative, the paper says.
December 22, 2021The PoC demonstrated that smart contracts can help to enable parties to share standardised and automated business processes and enable increased workflow efficiency.
December 14, 2021The model used in the PoC preserves the current role of banks in the financial system and allows non-bank wholesale market participants to access the CBDC.
December 13, 2021