It looks unlikely that a digital pound will launch in the U.K. any time soon as an election beckons. The digital shekel challenge, updates on India CBDC progress and other news in this week's roundup

There's new legislation designed to prevent a digital dollar from intruding on consumer privacy — with a report also revealing how central banks could enhance CBDC adoption.

Ghana collaborates with the Monetary Authority of Singapore in moneytech. Digital yuan expands to Hong Kong while workers in the mainland convert their e-CNY salaries into cash. Also several bullish developments in the race to tokenize real-world assets.

Are European Central Banks too slow on the CBDC track? Let's hear what the governors say. Also, in this roundup, the U.S. commercial banks fighting actively for their share of the crypto custody markets and even developing their own digital asset network.

Pakistan believes a central bank digital currency could support victims of family abuse — and Mastercard's reaping rewards after embracing tokenization.

While the population is "digitally savvy," data within the study suggests that encouraging consumers to switch to a CBDC may be an uphill struggle. Just 40% of payments in the Middle East and Central Asia were made digitally in 2021.

The rise of Apple Pay and embedded finance in popular consumer products had long been a looming threat to legacy banks. Now, central banks were feeling the squeeze

For all the key details of new blockchain projects in the banking world, real-world asset (RWA) tokenization, stablecoins, and central bank digital currency (CBDC) updates, the Observers 'Banking and CBDC Roundup' has you covered. Kicking off with the digital euro — and a whitepaper was released this week that