• BANQUE DE FRANCE’S EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH TO CENTRAL BANK DIGITAL MONEY

    • 22 May 2020
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    • Category: Central Banks, Cryptovalues News
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    Since the beginning of the year, the Banque de France has been experimenting with central bank digital money, with the aim of exploring with partners the potential contribution of new technologies to improve the functioning of financial markets and, more specifically, interbank regulations (so-called “wholesale” central bank digital money). Source: Avancement de la démarche d’expérimentations

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  • EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK – DIGITAL CURRENCY

    • 14 May 2020
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    • Category: Central Banks, Cryptovalues News, ECB - Lagarde
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    An ECB digital currency a flight of fancy? A change in payments behavior is coming, are we ready for the change? Find here the Speech by Yves Mersch. Source:ECB

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  • J.P. MORGAN OPENS TO THE CRYPTO INDUSTRY

    • 13 May 2020
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    For the first time, a bank opens to customers from the cryptocurrency world as Gemini and Coinbase. Read more in this article from Wall Street Journal: JPMorgan Extends Banking Services to Bitcoin Exchanges or here from Forbes: J.P. Morgan Opens Accounts For Bitcoin Exchanges— Coinbase And Gemini Up First

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  • BLOOMBERG – BITCOIN MATURATION LEAP

    • 23 April 2020
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    We share the April overview published by Bloomberg on: Born From the Financial Crisis, Bitcoin Maturation Accelerating Stock-Market Shakeout Accelerates Bitcoin’s Gold-Like Transition Bitcoin Futures Taming Bull Calf Toward Digital Version of Gold Bitcoin and Gold Showing Convergence With Endurance Covid-19 Supporting Bitcoin On-Chain Indicators, Dominance Covid-19 May Give Libra Life, Spur Fed’s Digital Currency

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  • HOW BANK OF ENGLAND IS EXPLORING CENTRAL BANK DIGITAL CURRENCY

    • 10 April 2020
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    The Bank of England (BoE) published a discussion paper on central bank digital currency (CBDC) in March 2020. BoE researchers and analysts are actively exploring how an electronic form of central bank money would look like and how it could function in the real world. The discussion paper outlines an illustrative model of CBDC designed

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  • GDF COVID_19 CORONAVIRUS GLOBAL HUBS REPORT OUT

    • 25 March 2020
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    Global Digital Finance global hub leaders delivered several insights from their respective regions at an extraordinary COVID-19 virtual mini-summit held today remotely. Leaders from Shanghai to New York described what’s going on, what are the different governmental responses, how remote working is affecting the day-to-day business operations and what are the best practices to establish

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  • IMF’S TAKE ON CBDC

    • 23 March 2020
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    Tao Zhang’s Keynote about some of the main pros and cons of CBDC and what the IMF is doing in this area. Read the speech HERE. Source: IMF Image credit: TOGO

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  • LIBRA OR LIBRAE?

    • 21 March 2020
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    Basket based stablecoins to mitigate foreign exchange volatility spillovers. In the paper they present a methodology to empirically build a basket based stable coin  (a Librae) whose weights can maximize stability over a long time period. The proposed stable coin (Librae) appears to be less volatile than single currencies and, therefore, with respect to single

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  • THE ITALIAN RED CROSS COLLI ALBANI COMMITTEE ACCEPTS BITCOIN DONATIONS

    • 20 March 2020
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    In these difficult days, we who have the opportunity to continue working from home are truly privileged compared to those who, for the public good, is working for us to contain the coronavirus emergency. tinkl.it wants to contribute to make sure that the generous donations that are coming from our cryptocurrency community can be converted

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  • BANK OF ENGLAND – CENTRAL BANK DIGITAL CURRENCY

    • 13 March 2020
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    We are in the middle of a revolution in payments. Banknotes are being used less frequently to make payments. At the same time, fintech firms have begun to alter the market by offering new forms of money and new ways to pay with it. It is now time to look further ahead, and consider what

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