Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) - Digital Pound Foundation

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 […]

Ripple Vice President James Wallis “CBDC, global compatibility is the key”

Unlocking $120 Billion Value In Cross-Border Payments: How banks can leverage central bank digital currencies for corporates

What does digital money mean for emerging market and developing economies?

Move over Bitcoin… here comes Britcoin

Central Bank of Nigeria publishes e-Naira design paper

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

Experimenting settlement of French government bonds in Central Bank Digital Currency with blockchain technology

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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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