The Champions League's last match happened yesterday, and once again, Real Madrid took home the big prize. The Spanish team played at Wembley Stadium in London against the underdog Borussia Dortmund. Despite the latter dominating the first half of the game, Madrid turned the tables in the last

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

All eyes have been on France this weekend. South of the country, the 77th Cannes Festival drew to a close on Saturday with Anora, a drama-comedy by U.S. filmmaker Sean Baker, taking home the festival's most important prize, the Palme d'Or. The French Open, the

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.

It was a big week for artificial intelligence, with Google and OpenAI both announcing updates regarding their language models. At its annual conference, Google revealed that in the coming months, most of its apps and services will be updated to include AI features. On the company's search engine,

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.

With so many floods and heavy rains happening all over the world in recent times, weather service agencies haven't been the carriers of good news. This week, however, there were some exceptions in the northern hemisphere countries. A geomagnetic storm has made it possible for people in several

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.