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The Central Bank of the UAE (CBUAE) is reportedly operationalizing its domestic digital dirham central bank digital currency (CBDC). It is encouraging all UAE commercial banks and payments processors to participate in a pilot integration with the CBUAE digital dirham issuing node and has decreed digital dirham adoption by all UAE licensed financial institutions (LSIs) by 2026. In the immediate term, those LSIs are being encouraged to develop digital dirham use cases in the CBUAE sandbox.

The Bank of Thailand (BOT) published an update on its retail central bank digital currency (CBDC) pilot testing. Although the pilot successfully demonstrated the potential of the technology behind the retail CBDC system, the BOT said it has no plans to launch one and will use the technology design to further develop a more efficient payment system in the future. I'd like to say more about the paper, but it's supposedly written in Thai, although Google Translate doesn't seem to think so, and just returns gibberish.

The Bank of Thailand (BOT) published an English version of its update on its retail central bank digital currency (CBDC) technical testing. The original version was published in late March 2024 in Thai and, because Google Translate was returning gibberish, I wasn't able to ascertain whether the latest work was a pilot or proof of concept (POC). However, according to the new document, it is clearly a proof of concept because the 4,000 individual users that participated were employees of the BOT and the three intermediaries that took part. In any case, the POC successfully demonstrated the potential of the technology behind the retail CBDC system, but the BOT said it has no plans to launch one and will use the technology design to further develop a more efficient payment system.