CBDCs – Future of Finance

FUTURE OF FINANCE ANNOUNCEMENT: Quant’s work on the digital pound

[FEBRUARY 2024] “We proved that APIs could play a key role in enabling CBDC systems to deliver a range of benefits in terms of payments functionality and security.” Andrew CarrierChief Marketing Officer Directed by the BIS Innovation Hub London Centre (BIS), Project Rosalind was an experiment that explored the development of a retail central bankContinue reading “FUTURE OF FINANCE ANNOUNCEMENT: Quant’s work on the digital pound”

Is the Future of Money Now Visible?

Key Insights From This Webinar The architecture of the future of money is becoming visible. While cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and stablecoins such as USDT continue to inhabit a separate universe (though one which causes occasional perturbations in traditional financial and money markets, as in 2022, when the collapse of algorithmic stablecoins and cryptocurrency lendersContinue reading “Is the Future of Money Now Visible? “

FUTURE OF FINANCE ANNOUNCEMENT: Quant launches central bank-grade key management solutions for blockchain transactions

[OCT 2023] Quant launched a ground breaking solution today that makes blockchain-based transactions more secure for banks and other institutions. Financial institutions have implemented mature key management solutions to secure data, business applications, and transactions. With the introduction of blockchain and digital assets, existing key management technology cannot be used to provide the same levelContinue reading “FUTURE OF FINANCE ANNOUNCEMENT: Quant launches central bank-grade key management solutions for blockchain transactions”

FUTURE OF FINANCE ANNOUNCEMENT: Quant launches Overledger Platform

[JUN 2023] Quant unveils The Overledger Platform, making the same enterprise-grade technology that has underpinned Quant’s projects with institutional and central bank customers to-date, accessible to large enterprises, SMEs and developers for the first time. The Overledger Platform: the infrastructure used in Project Rosalind – the Bank of England and Bank for International Settlements’ retail CBDC project –Continue reading “FUTURE OF FINANCE ANNOUNCEMENT: Quant launches Overledger Platform”

FUTURE OF FINANCE ANNOUCEMENT: Quant collaborates with BIS and the Bank of England on Project Rosalind

[JUN 2023] Quant announces its role as part of the vendor team for Project Rosalind. The project, led by the Bank for International Settlements and the Bank of England, explored how application programming interfaces could be used for central bank digital currency systems. Project Rosalind, directed by the BIS Innovation Hub London Centre, has beenContinue reading “FUTURE OF FINANCE ANNOUCEMENT: Quant collaborates with BIS and the Bank of England on Project Rosalind”

Quant and the Bank of England share CBDC vision

[MAY 2023] During a panel session at the Financial Times Digital Assets Summit last week, the Bank of England’s director for central bank digital currency, Tom Mutton, and Quant’s CEO Gilbert Verdian shared their views on a digital pound and tackled questions from the audience about personal data privacy and interoperability. Watch more here: https://quant.network/events/bank-of-england-and-quant-share-cbdc-vision/ ObjectivesContinue reading “Quant and the Bank of England share CBDC vision”

Is this how CBDCs will happen in the major global currencies?

[MAR 2023] A Future of Finance webinar March 23 at 2pm UK time When it came to digital money useable on blockchain networks, the choice between central bank money and commercial bank money used to feel binary: Stablecoins and tokenised deposits and e-money were stopgaps pending the introduction of CBDCs. But as the threat ofContinue reading “Is this how CBDCs will happen in the major global currencies?”

A thousand dApps will bloom on the solid foundations of CBDCs

[FEB 2023] Key Insights From This Interview The global consensus on the need to regulate asset-backed Stablecoins, and in particular to restrict issuance to banks, means these instruments are effectively being brought within the regulations applied to the banking industry (1). Being regulated as a bank entails obligations but also brings privileges, such as accessContinue reading “A thousand dApps will bloom on the solid foundations of CBDCs”

A thousand dApps will bloom on the solid foundations of CBDCs

[FEB 2023] A Future of Finance interview with Ricardo Correia, Head of Digital Currencies at R3. Dominic Hobson 00:14: Hello, I’m Dominic Hobson, co-founder of Future of Finance, spoke to Ricardo Correia, head of digital currencies at R3, where he leads a team that is working with central banks and financial institutions that are exploringContinue reading ” A thousand dApps will bloom on the solid foundations of CBDCs”

Embrace this digital future or die – Summary

This is the summary of a discussion hosted by Future of Finance in London on 20 September. A presentation by Dr Ian Hunt on his recently published paper, Digital Issuance – An Optimal Model for Digital Assets and Transactions, was followed by a discussion with an expert panel and the members of an invited audience,Continue reading “Embrace this digital future or die – Summary”