Bank of Japan unveils blockchain sandbox for testing central bank digital settlements, tokenized money, and smart contracts in wholesale and retail systems.

Japan’s central bank is running blockchain settlement experiments and advancing tokenized central bank money initiatives ahead of a 2026 decision on issuing a digital yen.

Japan’s central bank says a sandbox is underway to examine settlement using current account deposits, while warning of smart ...

Bank of Japan launches blockchain sandbox to test reserve settlements with central bank deposits, eyeing better interoperability and efficiency ...

ADB has approved a $60.9 million loan to improve water supply and sanitation in urban communities in Port Moresby and Vanimo, Papua New Guinea.

By Leika Kihara TOKYO, March 3 (Reuters) - The Bank of Japan will conduct experiments for using blockchain technology to settle deposits that financial institutions park with the central bank, ...

To accelerate the retirement of coal, we need a scalable incentive framework that offers equitable participation and fair distribution of costs and benefits.

The Indonesian government is grappling with mounting financial strain from its much-touted high-speed railway project led by China. Roughly two years after the line began operations in October 2023, ...

Cooking charges for 2025–26 have also been raised, with the state bearing the additional cost. A total of 46,933 cook-cum-helpers are paid ₹3,000 per month, including ₹600 from the Centre and ...

On3, 2026, Anthropic unveiled Claude Code, an AI tool capable of modernizing decades-old COBOL systems in months rather than years.

Faisal said the Ramadan-to-Eid period could lift growth by around 0.25%–0.3%, driven mainly by stronger household consumption ...

Stablecoins that offer interest-bearing rewards may increasingly resemble bank deposits. But unlike traditional deposits, ...