Examining South Korea’s tightly controlled CBDC approach versus Japan’s open stablecoin framework, and what these shifts ...

CBN reaffirms commitment to promoting clean Naira notes and financial inclusion, highlighting key policies for economic growth and stability at the 2025 CBN Fair.

Noelle Acheson pulls the bill that would ban the Federal Reserve from issuing a central bank digital currency into the ...

Payment finance, or "PayFi," aims to close gaps by marrying real-time blockchain settlement with the everyday tap-or-scan ...

The Bank of Korea paused its central bank digital currency project in the second quarter of 2025. The decision is not a cancellation but a ...

A reader of this newspaper can define money. Money serves as a medium of exchange. When you buy a shirt, the merchant gives you the shirt in exchange for money. Money is also a unit of account, ...

The project’s original vision was a two-tiered structure that sought to fuse together both wholesale and retail CBDC concepts ...

Pakistan partners with Japan’s Soramitsu to launch CBDC pilot, aiming to modernize finance under the new Virtual Assets Act ...

Pakistan partners with Japan's Soramitsu to pilot a central bank digital currency by 2025, aiming to boost financial ...

Malaysia’s central bank names XRP vs Bitcoin as possible future alternatives to traditional money, sparking debate on ...

The UAE is moving into the launch phase of its long-planned central bank digital currency, the Digital Dirham, after locking ...