The Bank for International Settlements, a consortium of banks based in Basel, Switzerland, polled 66 central banks last year. The results? One fifth of the world's population will use central bank digital currencies by 2023. CBDCs are a new type of digital money. They can be used for interbank settlements or as a type of general purpose “digital cash,” meant as a stand in for regular bank notes.
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6 central banks team up to explore digital currencies
England’s apex bank is joining forces with the Bank of Canada, the Bank of Japan, the European Central Bank, and others to study use cases for central bank digital currencies
The Bank of England’s statement said the group will explore “CBDC use cases; economic, functional and technical design choices, including cross-border interoperability; and the sharing of knowledge on emerging technologies.”
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China completes digital yuan design
The People’s Bank of China says it has completed the ‘top-level design’ and joint testing of its forthcoming central bank digital currency
The next steps in the country’s digital currency/electronic payment, or DC/EP, project—which it has been hammering away at for five years—are to “follow the principles of stability, security and control” and to “select pilot verification areas, scenarios and service scopes,” said Mu Changchun, the head of the PBOC’s digital currency research institute.
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Overwrought vs. overhyped: From France and America, dueling views of digital currencies
Whether issued privately by Facebook’s or publicly by a central bank, digital currencies bring strong opinions and flights of rhetoric
Flights of rhetoric surrounding Facebook’s Libra stablecoin and other digital currencies has reached impressive heights at times. But former U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Chairman J. Christopher Giancarlo took it beyond the stratosphere in an October 15 editorial, comparing the launch of an American central bank-backed digital currency to the Apollo 11 mission.
