The Bank of Israel has published a preliminary design document for the proposed digital shekel. Central banks around the ...

For users without bank accounts, the system would need to provide access points (like that of the m-pesa2 mobile payment system in Kenya) that allow cash-to-CBDC purchases and redemption. The primary ...

Israel releases a preliminary design for its central bank digital currency, digital shekel, while the US explores a crypto ...

Permissioned DLTs are similar to centralized ledgers from a security perspective and are more amenable than public DLTs to a CBDC solution. Regardless of whether they have shared or tiered ...

The Bank of Israel released its preliminary design for the Digital Shekel System and is now actively seeking public feedback.

But what does that future look like? With 90 per cent of central banks now exploring their own CBDC (Central Bank Digital Currency) according to McKinsey, the once-fanciful notion that governments ...

A central bank digital currency, or CBDC, is a digital version of a region’s fiat currency, put out by the region’s monetary authority. CBDCs gained a significant spotlight in 2020 ...

South Africa reached another milestone in its central bank digital currency (CBDC) implementation journey as it concluded a technical Proof-of-Concept (PoC) for its wholesale CBDC settlement system.