Staff Notes

This staff notes highlights how eCurrency DSC3 addresses the four key issues raised in a BIS report for a well-functioning CBDC system

Bejoy Das Gupta, eCurrency Chief Economist, co-authors a paper for the 2020 Central Bank of the Future conference. The paper has been...

A balance has to be struck between privacy and financial integrity in digital payments.

The eCurrency Digital Secure Currency (DSC) technology incorporates privacy as a core design tenet for the issuance of CBDC.

eCurrency has built and deployed a complete CBDC system required by the central banks without any of the issues exhibited by the blockchain.

As cash usage tends to fall around the world, digitalisation of cash is increasingly at the forefront of discussions.

Three papers evaluating the various CBDC design and implementation questions and options were published in February and March.

The coronavirus pandemic is bringing heightened focus on central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) for retail use by consumers and businesses.

In this episode, Barry Cooper and Jonathan Dharmapalan explore the immense opportunity of CBDC beyond the immediate challenges.

Stablecoins are putting focus on the shortcomings of existing solutions for instant cross border payments.

This article highlights the key findings of the OMFIF-IBM report on Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC).

At its fall meetings, the IMF held a series of meetings pointing out that corruption has a real and measurable impact on society.

Central bank governors, bankers, fintech experts and eCurrency discussed the implementation of a framework to promote fintech.

There is a growing need for a strong public response in support of more inclusive growth, efficiency gains, reduced risks in payment systems

The IMF’s New Economy Forum at the Spring Meetings explored CBDC and the Economics of Data.

The ITU is standardizing the terminology, technologies and system architectures for CBDC.

eCurrency was invited to speak at the Future of Cash conference in Athens, Greece in February.

Sixty-three central banks responded to a survey on CBDC conducted by Bank for International Settlement, published in January 2019.

A Digital Fiat Currency (DFC) issued by the Central Bank will address e-money challenges more effectively.

The innovations spurred by digital technology breakthroughs are starting to revolutionize the availability of financial services.