Digital currencies

The EU’s current push for strategic autonomy means little if it does not extend to payment systems

US President Donald Trump has previously said the bloc alliance is “anti-American” and he threatened to impose tariffs on its members

Now is when our country can secure a first-mover advantage – and shape the new financial order

The Trump administration has blocked further work on a CBDC in the US, citing financial stability concerns

The bar for licensing is high and it will generally not issue one, the regulator notes

Some Europeans are looking to the next geoeconomic contest

EVEN after a recent pullback, cryptocurrencies are some of the best-performing assets this year – and demand from Asia-Pacific retail investors has been a major engine of the rally.

INDUSTRY body UK Finance is expanding its pilot of an experimental shared ledger to track banking payments, hoping to join some of the dots in the nascent world of digital assets.

GLOBAL bank messaging network Swift is planning a new platform in the next one to two years to connect the wave of central bank digital currencies (CBDC) now in development to the existing finance system, it has told Reuters.