Swiss central bank announces plans for wholesale CBDC pilot with ‘real money’: Report
Thomas Jordan, head of the Swiss National Bank, announced the project at a conference in Zurich; bank still feels “prude...
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US wholesale CBDC has ‘promise,’ Fed governor says, but retail ‘difficult to imagine’
Federal Reserve Board governor Michelle Bowman discussed a potential U.S. CBDC in a speech at Georgetown University.
ECB should have DLT wholesale settlements when the market wants it, official says
Executive board member Fabio Panetta says it would undermine financial stability if the ECB were unprepared to use distr...
French central bank head announces beginning of wholesale digital euro project phase 2
The French presidency of the European Union winds down with the completion of wCBDC experiments, the design of a proprie...
The Philippines will launch pilot wholesale central bank digital currency project
Retail digital payments are growing, but the country needs to implement further payment and financial inclusion reforms...
South Africa finishes technical PoC for wholesale CBDC settlement system
The South African Reserve Bank stated further work would be undertaken to study the findings from the project and used t...
Swiss central bank tests wholesale CBDC with commercial partners
The Swiss National Bank integrated wholesale CBDC in banking systems with five commercial banks as part of the second ph...
