Europe’s wCBDC Project Pontes drops pilot label as it readies for September launch – Ledger Insights
Pontes, the first track of Europe’s DLT solution for wholesale central bank money and CBDC, plans to launch…
ECB launches Appia consultation re wholesale DLT settlement infrastructure – Ledger Insights
The European Central Bank has published a consultation paper for Appia, its long term initiative to develop an…
Bank of Greece simulates sovereign digital bond lifecycle with SWIAT – Ledger Insights
The Bank of Greece has completed a simulated issuance of a sovereign digital bond on the distributed ledger…
Bank of England selects ten DLT projects for RTGS atomic settlement trials – Ledger Insights
The Bank of England has announced the selection of ten projects to participate in its Synchronisation Lab. The…
ECB, Eurosystem to accept tokenized securities as central bank collateral – Ledger Insights
The European Central Bank (ECB) has announced that tokenized securities, including debt issued on distributed ledger technology (DLT)…
Bundesbank’s Nagel: central bank business models are changing
Central bank business models are being forced to change as the economy digitalises, Joachim Nagel, Deutsche Bundesbank governor,…
Bank of Italy: what if TradFi adopts Ethereum but ETH collapses? – Ledger Insights
The Bank of Italy has published a working paper exploring how to handle a loss of faith in…
Bundesbank questions legality of bank deposit tokens – Ledger Insights
In the Deutsche Bundesbank’s July monthly report, the central bank explored digital money, including central bank money, tokenized deposits and stablecoins. While…
DLT fund platform IZNES simulates wCBDC usage with Banque de France – Ledger Insights
IZNES, the European UCITS fund platform that uses blockchain for record keeping, shared details about experiments during the…
IMF explores central bank decisions on wholesale CBDCs – Ledger Insights
This week the International Monetary Fund (IMF) released a fintech note outlining the options for central banks that…
Bundesbank: why it prefers trigger payments to token-based wholesale CBDC – Ledger Insights
It’s been two years since the Deutsche Bundesbank unveiled tests for a trigger solution to settle DLT securities transactions with central bank…
MAS partners Bundesbank for DLT settlement; Banks of England, Thailand for FX – Ledger Insights
Today the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) announced two new workstreams with foreign central banks. It is partnering…