In a statement, Governor Lael Brainard of the U.S. Federal Reserve stated, the central bank is looking at a broad range of issues surrounding digital currencies and payments, including design, policy and legal considerations around potentially issuing its own digital currency. The development underscores an openness in the possibility of the Federal Reserve issuing its…
Finance ministers from the European Union have agreed that private digital currencies including Facebook’s Libra should not be allowed in the European Union until potential risks surrounding them are clearly addressed. The move confirms the tough stance claimed by the EU on stablecurrencies such as Facebook’s Libra, which incidentally has attracted criticism from global regulators…
On Tuesday, Haruhiko Kuroda, the governor of the Bank of Japan stated, the central bank has currently no plans to issue digital currencies; it is however conducting research on the subject in case the need to do so arises in the future. He went on to add, stable coins should not be issued unless there…
As per a report from the Wall Street Journal, starting next year, Alphabet Inc’s Google will offer checking accounts to customers as it increases it footprint in finance. According to the report, the project, named Cache, will have accounts by Citigroup Inc and a credit union at Stanford University. “Our approach is going to be…
Bank of England along with the finance ministry and the Financial Conduct Authority are slated to run a test today to gauge the resilience of the country’s financial sector against a major cyber attack. Britain’s central bank has disclosed, it will carry out a test on Friday to gauge the ability of the financial sector…
Their framework focuses on ways risks from crypto-asset markets could potentially spread to other parts of the global financial system. On Monday, global regulators published a framework for “vigilantly” monitoring risks from crypto-assets including ether and bitcoins. This is despite the fact that crypto-assets don’t pose any significant risk to financial stability, for now. The…
The move mirrors similar announcements made by the U.S. and China where increased trading volumes of cryptocurrencies have sparked concerns. On Friday, South Korea’s financial regulator has stated it will ban the raising of funds through all forms of virtual currencies, including Initial Coin Offering, (ICO), in a move that mirrors China’s restriction on initial…
In its report, Singapore-based FireEye has detailed Iran’s growing cyber espionage capabilities which has now placed it among the “top five world cyber-power”. As per FireEye, an internet security firm, hackers who have been allegedly linked to Iran’s government have attacked computer systems at aerospace and petrochemical firms which belong to Saudi Arabia and the…
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