Central bank digital currencies: haste without speed
While China is driving ahead with its digital yuan initiative, other major CBDC projects have been making steadier progress. Deutsche Bank’s Graham Buck reports. Source link
The promise and perils of central bank digital currencies –
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Central banks are gradually warming to digital currencies
  Author: Alex Katsomitros March 5, 2021 Last April, amid the COVID-induced panic that engulfed the planet, more shocking news came from China. The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) announced that it would start testing its own central bank digital currency (CBDC), a first for a major economy. Government employees in four cities were paid … Read more
Digital currencies and the future of the monetary system
Remarks by Mr Agustín Carstens, General Manager of the BIS, at the Hoover Institution policy seminar, Basel, 27 January 2021. Source link