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The expansion broadens the commercial-bank layer of China's two-tier CBDC, while new rules make wallet balances interest-bearing deposit liabilities covered by deposit insurance.
The structural question is coexistence, not competition. Stablecoins handle the exporter leg, a potential digital pound clears the importer side, and the design feeds the joint assessment.
Interoperable rails could lower the friction of trade settlement across the bloc, giving CBDCs a more practical role in international payments.
Phase two shifts the pilot from simulation to real consumer transactions, with Korea's four largest financial groups joining regional lenders to trial tokenized won across commercial rails.
The National Property Act rewrite folds virtual currencies and IP into the state balance sheet, while a 2027 bond tokenization pilot will plug into the Bank of Korea's CBDC infrastructure.
Twelve providers per euro-area national central bank is the largest live test of retail CBDC settlement to date, and it lands as the ECB pushes to finalise the digital euro rulebook by mid-2026.
The test roster covers banks, payment processors, and neobanks across the eurozone, hinting at how the ECB plans to distribute a retail CBDC when the pilot goes live in 2027.
The 12-month pilot covers online, offline, in-store and e-commerce flows across 19 euro-area central banks, with potential issuance targeted for 2029 if EU legislation lands.
The Finance Ministry's second-half roadmap ties the Digital Asset Basic Act to a CBDC pilot and government bond tokenization, marking the clearest South Korean signal yet that on-chain rails are…
A new 70-page combined text is expected this week, yet the missing ethics provision and a 60-vote Senate threshold leave the market-structure bill short of the bipartisan support it needs by midterms.
A statutory ban on retail and wholesale central bank digital dollars now sits on the books through 2030, removing the policy ambiguity that hung over US digital-asset strategy for years and reshaping…
Tucked into the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, the central bank digital currency ban clears Congress with bipartisan backing and lands without the President's signature.
The Fed is blocked from issuing a retail digital dollar through 2030, removing the one structural threat the crypto industry had lobbied against for years, even though the central bank was never…
A sitting CFTC chairman publicly drawing a hard line against a US central bank digital currency is the sharpest policy signal yet that the federal pivot is permanent, not partisan.
The opposition party frames the central bank's digital pound as state overreach and backs a private, lightly regulated stablecoin market. The fight is now political, not just policy.
Systemically important banks and large retailers are wired up; the BoR is now also exploring stablecoins as a complement to the digital ruble for cross-border settlement.
The announcement marks the transition from a limited pilot with a handful of banks to a broader consumer rollout, though legal work and bank integration still need to clear before mass adoption.
The four-year ban cleared the field for Circle and Tether, but the Fed was never close to launching a retail digital dollar.
The housing bill's four-year CBDC prohibition is collateral damage in a fight over the SAVE America Act, and the delay now threatens the Clarity Act's already tight Senate window.
The chamber cleared a multi-year moratorium on a retail Fed digital dollar, sending the fight to the Senate where central-bank digital currency policy has split both parties.
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