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HSBC and IBM complete successful token and digital wallet settlement test
17 December 2021 France
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

HSBC and IBM have successfully tested an advanced token and digital wallet settlement that included direct transactions between two central bank digital currencies, using the cloud

Euroclear supports use of CBDC for settlements
20 October 2021 Belgium
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Isabelle Delorme (pictured), deputy CEO of ESES CSDs Euroclear France, Euroclear Belgium and Euroclear Nederland comments: “We are extremely pleased to have worked on this pioneering project with our industry partners and the Banque de France"

BIS Innovation Centre leads testing with central banks on CBDC international settlement
03 September 2021 Singapore
Reporter: Bob Currie

Project Dunbar will develop prototypes for shared platforms supporting international settlement in central bank digital currencies. Testing will run with central banks in Australia, Malaysia, Singapore and South Africa

LiquidShare completes successful CBDC test
08 July 2021 France
Reporter: Rebecca Delaney

LiquidShare and Banque de France have successfully completed an experimental use of central bank digital currency for interbank settlement purposes

Banque de France successfully transacts securities with CBDC
21 June 2021 France
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

The new test demonstrated that DLT could be used to issue CBDC in connection with existing infrastructures such as T2S, where listed securities are delivered

Bank of England unveils ideas on new forms of digital money
11 June 2021 UK
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

Digital money in the UK considered to be systemic are those that have the potential to scale up and become widely used as a trusted form of sterling-based retail payments

SWIFT: New technologies are driving ‘tectonic shifts’ in the payments landscape
11 May 2021 Belgium
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

New technologies, changing customer expectations, emerging players and evolving business models are driving tectonic shifts in the payments landscape, according to SWIFT and Accenture

Bank of England creates Central Bank Digital Currency Taskforce
22 April 2021 UK
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

The government and the Bank of England have not yet made a decision on whether to introduce a CBDC in the UK, but say they will engage widely with stakeholders on the benefits, risks and practicalities of doing so

SIB releases paper on how to issue a central bank digital currency
24 January 2021 Switzerland
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

According to SIB, with the emergence of Bitcoin and the recently proposed digital currencies, central banks have growing competition from actors offering their own digital alternative to physical cash

Banque de France achieves ‘world first’ CBDC fund transaction using SETL blockchain
19 January 2021 France
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

Citi and CACEIS acted as the participating commercial banks to purchase CDBC tokens from Banque de France. CACEIS also acted as the custodian of the Groupama funds

SocGen performs first financial transaction settled with a Central Bank Digital Currency
22 May 2020 Paris
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

Societe Generale has performed the first financial transaction settled with a Central Bank Digital Currency

Banque de France calls for applications for digital euro experiment
01 April 2020 Paris
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

The experiment is to identify how innovative technologies could improve the efficiency and fluidity of payment systems and financial infrastructures