With the increasing adoption of cryptocurrencies and other digital assets globally, central banks have acknowledged the demand for an alternative to traditional fiat and central bank money. Central ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about how fintech is disrupting the financial industry in Asia. The hype is being separated from the reality when it comes ...

How could practitioners assess the domestic financial stability implications of retail CBDC? This chapter identifies six key transmission channels through which CBDC can affect financial ...

The mission helped the BCRD to assess a CBDC's potential macro-financial, legal, and financial integrity implications, and shared lessons from other countries' CBDC and digital money projects, ...

Cambodia's Bakong is commonly pointed to as Southeast Asia's most successful CBDC, except it's not a CBDC. Southeast Asia has 11 countries with a combined population of 700 million people, including ...