Could World Wire, IBM’s recently announced blockchain-based payments network, spur a sovereign digital coin?
Bank of Shanghai is testing BitMint’s Q-Pay, a.k.a. “pay like cash”, which looks like a preamble to a new paradigm of digital money.
Analyst Shaun Cochran explains why sovereign digital currencies are likely to become a reality, and what they’d replace.
Frank Troise: crypto-currencies do not challenge the hegemony of the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency.
State Street’s Pinar Emirdag says the bank consortium behind USC wants to create DLT-based infrastructure for cash-leg settlements.
Frank Troise: crypto-currencies do not challenge the hegemony of the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency.
Central banks are in talks about using the company's tech to issue digital currencies pegged to fiat money.
