Digital yuan

China signs up 26 financial institutions to digital yuan cross-border payment platform

It supports 24-hour digital payment links with foreign central banks and overseas financial institutions

The yuan has already overtaken the US dollar in recent years for China’s cross-border transactions, and the country’s own payment system, CIPS, has been gaining traction.

China opens digital yuan hub in Shanghai to boost global use

The hub will support digital finance trade, investment, innovation, and strengthen the country’s overseas financial links

JD.com has proposed China allow renminbi stablecoin issuance in Hong Kong, before expanding the pilot scheme to offshore markets within China’s free trade zones.

China’s tech giants lobby for offshore renminbi stablecoin: sources

The two firms propose China allow the launch of stablecoins in Hong Kong pegged to its offshore renminbi to help promote global use of the Chinese currency

Pan’s call comes as US President Donald Trump’s erratic tariff and foreign policies have dented investor trust in US dollar assets.

China’s central bank says to promote digital yuan, multi-polar currency system

Pan Gongsheng expects several key global currencies to coexist in mutual competition and checks and balances

China central bank governor Yi Gang says the digital currency’s transaction volume hits 1.8 trillion yuan in the same period, with total transactions reaching 950 million.

China e-CNY in circulation hit 16.5 billion yuan as of Jun 30 this year, central bank governor says

CHINA’S central bank governor Yi Gang said on Wednesday (Jul 19) the country’s digital currency in circulation reached 16.5 billion yuan (S$3 billion) as of end-June.

China has been a leader among countries that are developing the CBDC – digital tokens issued by central banks, although adoption is still in the early stages.

Chinese digital currency stocks surge amid new efforts to promote e-CNY

CHINESE digital currency-related stocks jumped on Monday (Apr 24) in a weak broader market, amid the latest measures that China is taking to promote the use of its own central bank digital currency (C...

Digital-yuan business had no synergistic effect and no commercial benefits in banks’ business, the former PBOC official said.

Former PBOC official says China’s digital yuan is little used: Caixin

CHINA’S central-bank digital currency is little used, a former official of the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) said on Wednesday (Dec 28), financial news outlet Caixin reported.

A sign indicating digital yuan, also referred to as e-CNY, at a shopping mall in Shanghai, China; May 5, 2021.

The Fed needs to take the digital yuan seriously

The e-CNY will be more than just a paperless version of cash for China’s local economy. Its use in trade settlement poses a challenge to the dollar.

China is well advanced with real-life trials of an e-yuan.

Swift sets out blueprint for central bank digital currency network

FINANCIAL messaging system Swift has laid out its blueprint for a global central bank digital currency (CBDC) network following an 8-month experiment on different technologies and currencies.