BANGKOK (AP) — China has been expanding use of digital currencies as it promotes wider use of its yuan, or renminbi, to reflect its status as the world's second-largest economy and challenge the ...

China is about to turn its central bank digital currency from a quiet pilot into a fully fledged piece of the financial system, with 2026 set as the year the project stops being an experiment and ...

In 2025, China and the United States are deepening their rivalry in a new arena: digital currency infrastructure. In May, Hong Kong passed landmark legislation to regulate fiat-referenced stablecoins, ...

In cities across China, the country’s central bank has begun rolling out the e-renminbi—an all-digital version of its paper currency that can be accessed and accepted by merchants and consumers ...

In 2017, the Chinese government was the largest cryptocurrency market in the world. It is estimated that as many as 80 percent of all Bitcoin transactions were taking place in Chinese currency, the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. On January 1, 2026, the People’s Bank of China began paying interest on digital yuan balances held in user wallets. To some, it ...

BEIJING/SHANGHAI, Dec 29 - Holdings of China's ‌digital yuan, or e-CNY, will ‌start generating interest income next year under a new framework, state broadcaster CCTV said on Monday, as China steps up ...

BEIJING/HONG KONG, March 5 (Reuters) - China said on Thursday it would inject 300 billion yuan ($44 billion) into state-owned ...

Transaction volume under Project mBridge surged over 2,500-fold from the early 2022 pilot levels to more than US$55 billion by November 2025 Deeper regulatory ties and a shared push for new growth ...