On 30 July 2024, the Bank of England published a discussion paper on its approach to innovation in money and payments (the Discussion Paper). A recurring theme is the Bank of England’s focus on the ...

The Bank of England said it plans to carry out a series of experiments on a wholesale central bank digital currency and distributed ledger technology. It will also experiment to ensure that the ...

This content has been selected, created and edited by the Finextra editorial team based upon its relevance and interest to our community. The project aims to explore a multi-central bank digital ...

The Bank of England (BoE) has announced plans to conduct a series of experiments with distributed ledger technology (DLT) and wholesale central bank digital currencies (wCBDC). This initiative seeks ...

The Deutsche Börse subsidiary is the only central securities depository taking part in the first phase of digital euro preparations. Central securities depository Clearstream, a Deutsche Börse Group ...

Distributed ledger technology (which includes blockchain) is transformative in its own right. That said, one of the unique aspects of distributed ledger technology is its ability to benefit numerous, ...

With volumes now over $1.5 trillion monthly, the Distributed Ledger Repo (DLR) is designed to integrate distributed-ledger technology with existing front- and back-office systems to streamline and ...