An initiative to prohibit commercial banks in Switzerland from electronically creating money when they make a loan was overwhelmingly rejected by Swiss voters. According to Reuters, more than three quarters of voters rejected the Sovereign Money initiative. In addition, all of the country’s 26 self-governing...
July 03, 2024
The Swiss National Bank is reportedly amenable to expanding its digital currency project. “We would like to see a pilot which develops, with more banks joining and a higher volume of transactions,” said governing board member Antione Martin, whose comments at the the Point Zero Forum in Zurich on Wednesday (July 3) were reported by […]
June 11, 2018
An initiative to prohibit commercial banks in Switzerland from electronically creating money when they make a loan was overwhelmingly rejected by Swiss voters. According to Reuters, more than three quarters...