ECB’s Lagarde questions the case for promoting euro stablecoins – Ledger Insights
In a speech today, European Central Bank (ECB) President Christine Lagarde explored the growing adoption of stablecoins and…
AFME emphasizes market-based structures in vision for tokenization, DLT in Europe – Ledger Insights
Today the Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME) published its vision for future DLT-based architecture for European…
ECB Director: tokenization gains unmatched by previous waves of tech change – Ledger Insights
Yesterday Piero Cipollone, a member of the European Central Bank’s (ECB’s) executive board, gave an expansive speech on…
My Dispatch from The Banking Scene Amsterdam
by Tom Dickinson Traveling from the grey skies of London to the crisp, canal-side air of the Eye…
Reserve Bank of Australia explores tokenization sandbox – Ledger Insights
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) plans to explore a new digital financial market infrastructure (DFMI) sandbox with…
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…
LG CNS demos deposit tokens for AI agentic payments in central bank trials – Ledger Insights
Korean IT service provider LG CNS has demonstrated an AI agentic payment system using deposit tokens. The demonstration…
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…
Deutsche Bundesbank enables DLT securities settlement in central bank money – Ledger Insights
Today the Deutsche Bundesbank announced a successful test with the Deutsche Börse for settling distributed ledger technology (DLT) securities transactions using the…
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…