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This 'lost payments' problem was the problem we set out to solve when we built the Corda Settler. And I was reminded about this when I overheard some colleagues discussing it the other day. One of them wondered why we don't include the recipient of a payment in the set of parties that must agree that a payment has actually been made. Isn't that kinda a bit of an oversight?!

Wells Fargo says its blockchain for internal cross-border money transfers is faster and more efficient than SWIFT, the global messaging system used by over 11,000 financial institutions.

Blockchain service firm Chainstack recently published a report about developer activity on six major enterprise blockchains, showing that Fabric has overtaken Corda in regard to dev activity on its repository. A chart included in the report shows that Fabric developer activity exceeded Corda's in Q4 2019.

Banco Central do Brasil is running a series of public webinars to debate the general guidelines for a Brazilian central bank digital currency (CBDC), and discuss use cases that can benefit from a digital Real and the most appropriate implementation technologies. There will be seven sessions that will run from July 29 to November that will cover potential applications, identity and data issues, offline capacity, smart contracts, operational issues, cross border integration, platform technology and interoperability with existing payment rails.

"The ability to hold cash and spend it without authorisation is an important source of personal privacy, so it's entirely natural for people to be wary of new technologies digitising this type of money. Open collaboration between central banks, regulators and technology providers across both the public and private sectors will be key in fostering the necessary consumer trust to make this transition credible."

"If you were designing a CBDC you might want to create a cash-like experience for users. This is just one design decision, but it's surprisingly tricky. There are two features in particular that define the user experience with cash: it's anonymous and it's authenticable. Creating a token that incorporates one of these features is straightforward. Creating a token with both features together, however, poses an interesting-though solvable-challenge for blockchains that use the UTXO model."