Insights on CBDC, Digital Fiat Currency, Standardization and More

Apr 24, 20201 min read

The Tale of Three Investigations

Three papers evaluating the various CBDC design and implementation questions and options were published in February and March.

Apr 24, 20204 min read

COVID-19 Provides Another Rationale for Central Bank Digital Currencies

The coronavirus pandemic is bringing heightened focus on central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) for retail use by consumers and businesses.

Apr 7, 20208 min read

How CBDC should be designed to meet future payment needs?

In this episode, Barry Cooper and Jonathan Dharmapalan explore the immense opportunity of CBDC beyond the immediate challenges.

Dec 9, 20193 min read

Globalization of Digital Payments

Stablecoins are putting focus on the shortcomings of existing solutions for instant cross border payments.

Dec 9, 20191 min read

OMFIF Report on Retail CBDCs – The next payments frontier

This article highlights the key findings of the OMFIF-IBM report on Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC).

Dec 9, 20192 min read

Fighting Corruption with CBDC

At its fall meetings, the IMF held a series of meetings pointing out that corruption has a real and measurable impact on society.