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Fed Exploring ‘Hypothetical’ Digital Currency

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In a speech delivered by webcast at the Federal Reserve Board and Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco’s Innovation Office Hours, Fed Governor Lael Brainard said that the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston is working with researchers at MIT to “build and test a hypothetical digital currency oriented to central bank uses.”.

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Bahamas Launches Digital Sand Dollar; Adds To Rise Of Central Bank Digital Currencies

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In other CBDC efforts, as reported in the fall , China’s central bank issued 10 million yuan ($1.5 Such central bank efforts toward CBDC might soon get a helping hand. This week, FinTech EMTECH said it’s launching a compliance platform in collaboration with Microsoft to help central banks test their respective CBDCs.

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Fed, Central Banks Frame Criteria For Digital Currency

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Cunliffe also told Reuters that he did not think any single approach to a central bank digital currency (CBDC) would end up being the dominating force. “I A May BIS survey of 66 central banks indicated that 80 percent are working on CBDCs. . The Fed also launched an instant payment initiative in August.

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Fed Chair Powell Urges Thorough Vetting Of Central Bank Digital Currencies

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The Fed chief made his comments as part of a panel discussion on digital currencies hosted by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). It comes on the heels of an IMF report that raises concerns about growing momentum toward central bank-issued digital currencies (CBDCs). The Fed chief, noting that the U.S.

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EU Bankers Weigh Risks, Rewards of CBDC – and Cash’s Staying Power

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But as to what a CBDC might look like in the eurozone, ECB executive board member Yves Mersch said a speech earlier this year that retail central bank digital currency (CBDC) is a game-changer and that retail CBDCs would be a “main focus.”

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Fed’s Powell: CBDC Will Be Years, Not Months, Away

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Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said he isn’t in a rush to adopt a central bank digital currency (CBDC) because of the risks such currencies pose to the status of the dollar, CoinDesk reported. “We We don’t feel an urge or need to be first,” he said of CBDCs, according to the report. dollar is] the reserve currency.”.

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Federal Reserve’s Cunha on the State (and Timeframe) of Digital Dollars

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As many as 80 percent of the 66 central banks polled by the Bank of International Settlements said they were at some stage of CBDC development. China has been at the forefront of those efforts, at least as measured in terms of debuting an actual CBDC, and is in the midst of testing its digital yuan in various settings.

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