Deloitte Report on Central Bank Owned Cryptocurrency
The Bitcoin community is eagerly awaiting announcements of bitcoin and digital currency regulations from Central Banks of their respective nations. Most of the Central Banks so far published advisories regarding risks involved with digital currency transactions and watching the sector develop. One of the "Big Four" professional services firms, Deloitte has recently published a report titled "State-Sponsored Cryptocurrency: Adapting the best of Bitcoin's Innovation to the Payments Ecosystem". In this report, Deloitte outlines the possibility of financial institutions using bitcoin like....
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Would a central bank ever issue its own cryptocurrency? While the verdict may still be out, a new report by professional services giant Deloitte explores how it might go about doing so. Entitled "State-Sponsored Cryptocurrency: Adapting the best of Bitcoin's Innovation to the Payments Ecosystem", the report envisions a bitcoin-like system in which financial institutions act as uncompensated miners for a ledger governed by a central bank. The idea of a central bank-backed cryptocurrency has been floated in the past, as shown by concepts like Fedcoin and comments by the central bank of....
The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) has completed a trial run of digital currency based on blockchain technology. According to a recent report from Chinese publishing giant Caixin, the central bank completed a trial that saw transactions settled with its own digital currency. Developed by the PBOC, the digital currency was tested on a blockchain and the trial was completed in mid-December 2016. The trial took place on shared distributed ledger that saw several major commercial banks as participants. The world’s largest bank by assets, the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China along with....
Deloitte, one of the “Big Four” accounting firms is launching an exclusive blockchain lab in New York’s Wall Street district to research and develop financial blockchain-based solutions. Calling 2017 the ‘make-or-break’ year for blockchain technology, the lab’s focus will look toward creating “ready-to-integrate” solutions for Deloitte’s clients in the financial services industry. To aid in its effort to develop deployable blockchain solutions, the blockchain lab will see over 20 developers and designers staffed under its roof. The effort will be client-focused, Deloitte says, and will now....
A new report by the Deloitte Center for Financial Services predicts that permissioned blockchain payment systems will see “significant transaction volume” by 2020. Such systems, the report said, could reach the scale of the ACH network, which processes 23 billion transactions annually, by 2025. Elsewhere, it projects that bitcoin and digital currencies will go mainstream, but that many alternative cryptocurrencies would likely vanish or be replaced by “state-sponsored” digital currencies. Deloitte's findings come as part of a broader report assessing how disruptive forces are expected to....
The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP), the country’s central bank, has reportedly come to a decision to ban the use of all cryptocurrencies within the country. The central bank has also asked the Sindh High Court to ban “unauthorized operations” of crypto exchanges and impose penalties on them.
Pakistani Interministerial Committee Recommends Banning Cryptocurrency and All Related Activities
A high-level interministerial committee constituted to make recommendations on whether any form of cryptocurrency should be permitted under Pakistani law reportedly....