Kyrgyzstan President Sadyr Zhaparov signed a landmark CBDC law authorizing the country’s central bank to issue the “digital ...

Kyrgyzstan President Sadyr Japarov took his country a step closer to issuing its own central bank digital currency Thursday, ...

The UK's central bank investigated a system that allows phone-to-phone, phone-to-card, and card-to-phone payments while ...

Belarus will launch CBDC by late 2026, first for businesses, then for the government and public, in partnership with Russia.

A bill designed to stop the U.S. Federal Reserve from issuing a central bank digital currency (CBDC) moved a step closer to ...

The US House Financial Services Committee has advanced a bill aimed at preventing federal banks from using or issuing central bank digital currencies, or CBDCs, paving the way for a vote in the ...

Eleven now accepts CBDC in South Korea as part of a national pilot involving major banks and retailers until June 2025.

"The Anti-CBDC Surveillance State Act ensures that the United States' digital currency policy is in the hands of the American ...

On April 2, 2025, the U.S. House Financial Services Committee passed the Anti-CBDC Surveillance State Act, a bill introduced ...

This content is contributed or sourced from third parties but has been subject to Finextra editorial review. Central banks worldwide are accelerating retail CBDC (central bank digital currency ...

South Korea’s 7-Eleven shops will be taking part in the BOK’s CBDC project's test phase, allowing all of its shops across the country to accept payments in CBDCs.