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CBDC standards needed for wide-spread adoption

Three Insights on CBDC Solutions from Global Researchers

Digital Money: Global markets and the coming revolution in cross-border settlement

On 24 February, the Digital Pound Foundation hosted a webinar entitled ‘Global markets and the coming revolution in cross-border settlement’. The session discussed how new forms of digital money, including central bank digital currency, are opening up possibilities for wholesale cross-border transaction settlement. These new forms of money have the potential to revolutionise the FX […]

Central Bank Digital Currencies: A Global Capital Markets Perspective

Behind the Scenes of Central Bank Digital Currency

Looking back at 2021 for clues as to what to come

Authors: John Velissarios (Accenture) and Jannah Patchay (Digital Pound Foundation) Digital finance saw incredible growth last year. At Accenture, we saw our digital exchange clients get their licenses to operate. We have been driving projects with leading central and commercial banks to re-architect the geography of wholesale central bank digital currency settlement and have been […]

CBDC must preserve defining features of physical money

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About the Foundation

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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