How could a digital Pound facilitate financial inclusion?

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Published: May 19, 2022

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Date: 19 May 2022
Time: 4:00-5:00pm BST
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All around the world, governments are exploring the introduction of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) including the Bank of England examining the case for introducing a digital Pound in the UK. A number of perceived benefits of having a digital currency have been proposed, with a key element being the ability to facilitate greater financial inclusion.

But how should we define financial inclusion in this context – by universal access, by cost, or by efficiency – and is inclusion actually an inevitable byproduct of CBDCs? What are the challenges posed by financial inclusion – or the lack thereof – when it comes to adoption of CBDCs? What about digital inclusion, and its impact on CBDC inclusivity? How can central banks ensure that the design of a digital pound takes financial inclusion into account? And how might we all ultimately benefit?

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Whilst most CBDC experiments have involved private sector technology providers, the overwhelming majority of these experiments, to date, have not involved participation from other private sector actors. The Digital Pound Foundation is unique in proposing a model whereby the public and private sectors can fully engage in the design, development and adoption of a digital Pound, thus contributing to its successful roll-out and helping drive forward the UK’s transition to a digital economy.

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