CBDCs are more than a solution to a problem: Response to the House of Lords CBDC report
Co-authored by Jannah Patchay, Jim Ford and Phil Kenworthy, on behalf of the Digital Pound Foundation’s Policy, Legal and Regulatory Working Group The House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee (EAC) published a report, in January 2022, entitled “Central bank digital currencies: a solution in search of a problem?”. The report’s publication followed the EAC’s Call […]
Budget speech proposes the introduction of a Digital Rupee starting 2022-23
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 […]
How the Bank of England can reap the benefits of a digital currency
New wine in old wineskins: Are central bank digital currencies just another development in the payments landscape or are they a paradigm shift?
Author: Jim Ford, Originating Member, Digital Pound Foundation Before the advent of bottles, wine was held in wineskins, usually made of goat or sheep hair. Newly-produced wine was always poured into new wineskins because old or used wineskins would expand and explode under the pressure of the new wine. Similarly, with central bank digital currencies, […]
BIS Innovation Hub to focus on CBDC, payments, DeFi and green finance in 2022 work programme
Bank of Korea Says First Phase of CBDC Test Completed Successfully
CBDC must preserve defining features of physical money
The digital euro: policy implications and perspectives
Money and Payments: The U.S. Dollar in the Age of Digital Transformation
