Dr. Nir Yaacobi from the Digital Shekel team at the Bank of Israel shared that participants in the study were randomly ...

Eleven stores in South Korea can now pay using the Bank of Korea’s digital currency. with a 10% discount to incentivize ...

Central bank digital currencies have the potential to improve financial inclusion for women, but only if they are combined ...

The U.S. House Financial Services Committee passes the Anti-CBDC Surveillance State Act, aiming to block the Federal Reserve ...

South Korea’s 7-Eleven shops will be taking part in the BOK’s CBDC project's test phase, allowing all of its shops across the ...

Eleven now accepts CBDC in South Korea as part of a national pilot involving major banks and retailers until June 2025.

Crypto and CBDCs may have started on opposite ends of the financial universe, but they have one another now. The future of cross-border finance is one of convergence in the middle—where crypto ...

On April 2, 2025, the U.S. House Financial Services Committee passed the Anti-CBDC Surveillance State Act, a bill introduced ...

A bill designed to stop the U.S. Federal Reserve from issuing a central bank digital currency (CBDC) moved a step closer to ...

The Anti-CBDC Surveillance State Act seeks to block the Fed from issuing a digital currency without Congress' approval to protect privacy.

South Korea’s 7-Eleven stores will accept payments in the country’s central bank digital currency (CBDC) until June, as the retailer participates in the test phase of its CBDC project.  The ...

The crypto boom in Brazil is beyond being a tech trend or a simple financial fad; it reflects a major paradigm shift in people's approaches toward money, opportunity, and trust in systems distant from ...