CBDC
The Deutsche Bundesbank Representative Office, jointly with Japan's Ministry of Finance and the Bank of Japan, held an event titled "CBDC Insights: Digital Euro and Japan's Approach" on Thursday, September 11, 2025, on the occasion of Burkhard Balz's visit, the board member
payments
The European Central Bank's Legal Conference was held on September 1 & 2, titled "Building Europe's Autonomy: Law, Institutions, Cooperation." It included a panel on "Resilience, autonomy and cooperation in payments and clearing systems," with the following brief: Enhancing payment and clearing
CBDC
The Bank of Japan has published the minutes from the 9th meeting of the Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) Liaison Council on June 4, 2025. The meeting covered discussions about: * Progress updates from the Bank of Japan on CBDC pilot experiments and international developments * Key concerns from various financial industry
central bank
Bank of Japan Executive Director Kazushige Kamiyama spoke at the third "Meetup with BoJ", hosted by the FinTech Association of Japan. Introduction Good afternoon, everyone. I am Kamiyama from the Bank of Japan. Thank you very much for this valuable opportunity to speak with all of you who
web3
Hitachi Payment Services has made a strategic minority investment in Spydra Technologies to develop and introduce innovative offerings in the rapidly evolving domains of Web 3.0, Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) and Blockchain Technology. Spydra is a low-code enterprise blockchain platform specializing in real-world asset tokenization. Spydra enables asset
CBDC
The Bank of Papua New Guinea, in cooperation with the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), and FinTech company Soramitsu, has successfully completed a proof of concept for the country's central bank digital currency (CBDC), Digital Kina. The Digital Kina's PoC utilizes cutting-edge technology
CBDC
Waseda University released the fifth episode of its English language podcast series “Rigorous Research, Real Impact”, covering “Central Bank Digital Currencies from a Japanese Legal Perspective”. In the following, we have summarized Professor Takashi Kubota's insights on Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs), focusing on the legal implications and
CBDC
The Bank of Japan has published the minutes of the Eighth Meeting of the Liaison Council on Central Bank Digital Currency, held on November 25, 2024. Following the opening remarks from Director Kato, the Secretariat explained the progress status of the pilot experiment (Secretariat materials, pages 1-18). After that, the
CBDC
The second CBDC liaison meeting between the Bank of Japan and related ministries was held on December 2, 2024. The discussion focused on Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) data handling, privacy, and utilization.