Korea, Japan to collaborate on digital bonds – Ledger Insights
Earlier this week, the Commissioner of Japan’s Financial Services Agency visited Korea to discuss collaborations between the two…
Bank of Italy develops custom Bitcoin consensus for central bank DLT – Ledger Insights
The Bank of Italy is planning quite a bit of research work on distributed ledger technology (DLT). In…
Bank of England: systemic stablecoins can hold ‘some’ government bonds – Ledger Insights
During a speech today, Bank of England Deputy Governor Sarah Breeden discussed stablecoins. When the central bank outlined…
IMF explores solutions to some of stablecoin’s challenges – Ledger Insights
If you’ve been reading coverage of stablecoins during this ‘stablecoin summer’, you’ll notice it has a tendency to…
Bank of Korea suggests stablecoin central bank backstop – Ledger Insights
During a joint industry and academic event covering stablecoins, the Bank of Korea’s Head of its Digital Currency…
Unpacking the report that ECB mulls public blockchain for digital euro CBDC – Ledger Insights
Today the Financial Times ran an article saying EU officials are accelerating plans for the digital euro central…
Brazil’s DREX CBDC project pivots away from blockchain, tokenization – Ledger Insights
Last week during a presentation at the Blockchain Rio event, Brazil’s central bank Governor Gabriel Gallipolo spoke about…
IMF blockchain analysis confirms stablecoins flow from US to RoW – Ledger Insights
New International Monetary Fund (IMF) research confirms what many suspected: stablecoins are accelerating dollar adoption worldwide, with billions…
Deutsche Bank, UBS settle tokenized deposit payments in Bundesbank Trigger solution experiment – Ledger Insights
Last week UBS said it was piloting UBS Digital Cash, a blockchain-based solution for multi-currency payments that allows…
Is the ECB warming to stablecoins? – Ledger Insights
In a blog post, “From hype to hazard: what stablecoins mean for Europe”, Jürgen Schaaf, a European Central…
SEC’s Peirce expands on UK cross border tokenization sandbox. EU not invited – Ledger Insights
During a speech last week, Hester Peirce, Commissioner of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), elaborated on…
Bank of England: stablecoins are no substitute for commercial bank money – Ledger Insights
Yesterday both the UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves and the Governor of the Bank of England Andrew Bailey gave…