The Future of Money – does the UK need a digital Pound? A fireside chat with the Bank of England
The emergence of digital currencies has been driven by a combination of factors: frontier technologies and their use in payments innovation, increasingly global networks and communities, and a growing recognition that transition to a digital economy will require new forms of digital money. Although initially driven by the private sector, central banks and governments have […]
Statement on Central Bank Digital Currency next steps
Central bank digital currencies – walking the ESG tightrope
This week, one of the Digital Pound Foundation’s key partners, Herbert Smith Freehills, released ESG: creating a purposeful future, the fifth edition of its Global Bank Review. The publication explores some of the key legal and commercial challenges facing the banks sector in relation to ESG, but also the opportunities that ESG presents to financial […]
Unlocking $120 Billion Value In Cross-Border Payments: How banks can leverage central bank digital currencies for corporates
Move over Bitcoin… here comes Britcoin
Does the UK need a CBDC? What benefits would a digital Pound offer?
The global economy, including cross-border trade, is moving increasingly to the digital realm, an effect heightened by the recent Covid-19 pandemic and associated “social distancing” and “work from home” requirements. The successful implementation and adoption of a digital Pound would recognise these trends and would deliver many potential benefits to the UK economy, its businesses, […]
Minutes of the CBDC Technology Forum – September 2021
G7 Public Policy Principles for Retail Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC)
Digital Pound Foundation launches to support development of the UK’s CBDC and digital money ecosystem
A broad coalition of academic and industry experts respond to the questions posed by the Bank of England on the topic of new forms of digital money.
Payments Landscape Review: Response to the Call for Evidence
