42 results about this entity
Period: 08 Mar 2010 - 19 Sep 2023
News/crypto
At Sibos 2023 in Toronto, EY’s Christopher Woolard chaired a session on how digital currencies have made a big splash over the past few years and questioned whether they will be merely a drop in the ocean.
19 September 2023
News/security
The Bank of Canada has called in local specialist evolutionQ for a research project involving quantum-safe cybersecurity technologies for greenfield digital currencies.
06 September 2023
The majority of finance professionals do not support the launch of central banking digital currencies (CBDCs) according to recently published research.
17 August 2023
Company announcement/payments
The Bank of Canada is launching an online public consultation on the features that could be included in a digital Canadian dollar.
09 May 2023
News/regulation
As the Bank of Canada prepares to assume responsibility for supervising the country’s 2500 payment service providers, Finextra spoke to Ron Morrow, the bank’s executive director of supervision.
05 May 2023
News/payments
An offline CBDC could offer a compliment to cash that would boost financial inclusion and preserve privacy, suggests a note from the Bank of Canada.
07 March 2023
The leading candidate to become Canada's opposition leader says he would ban the country's central bank from issuing a CBDC.
29 April 2022
The Bank of Canada has teamed up with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on a twelve-month research project on central bank digital currencies.
18 March 2022
News/wholesale
Payments Canada has launched Lynx, the country's new high-value payment system, which has been built with technology partners IBM and SIA.
01 September 2021
The Bank of Canada has accelerated work on a central bank digital currency (CBDC) in response to Covid-19 and its impact on cash usage, says a senior official who nevertheless cautions that a digital loonie is still not a "forgone conclusion".
10 February 2021
News/people
The Bank of Canada is looking to hire an economist focused on digital currencies and financial technologies as it continues to build up its expertise ahead of any possible CBDC implementation.
19 October 2020
Delegates discussing central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) at Sibos 2020 agree that there is a long road ahead for global mass adoption to facilitate cross-border payments.
07 October 2020
Company announcement/regulation
Bank of Canada Governor Tiff Macklem has designated Interac e‑Transfer ® as a prominent payment system under the Payment Clearing and Settlement Act, effective August 10, 2020.
11 August 2020
Canada's central bank is in the market for a CBDC project manager to oversee plans for the creation of a mass-market, consumer-friendly digital currency.
17 June 2020
News
The US dollar's position as the unrivalled global currency means it has the most at stake should central banks begin to issue their own digital currencies, according to ING economist Carlos Cocuzzo.
05 March 2020
The Bank of Canada has no plans to issue its own digital currency, but says this could change if cash usage drops off significantly or private options such as the Facebook-backed Libra gain widespread adoption.
27 February 2020
The Monetary Authority of Singapore says it has engaged with more than 40 financial and non-financial firms to determine the commercial viability and value of its blockchain-based prototype for multi-currency payments.
11 November 2019
The Bank of Canada and the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) have used distributed ledger technology to send each other central bank digital currencies (CBDCs).
02 May 2019
The Singapore Fintech Festival yesterday played host to a quartet of distinct cross-border and digital currency payment initiatives, drawing in United Overseas bank, Grab, Ripple and the country's central bank.
15 November 2018
Company announcement
Payments Canada, the Bank of Canada, TMX Group, Accenture (NYSE: ACN) and R3 have published a report demonstrating the feasibility of clearing and settlement of securities using distributed ledger technology (DLT).
26 October 2018
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