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Governing the Coin: World Economic Forum Global Consortium for Digital Currency Governance
Governing the Coin: World Economic Forum Global Consortium for Digital Currency Governance

"The Global Consortium for Digital Currency Governance will aim to increase access to the financial system through innovative policy solutions that are inclusive and inter-operable Opportunities for financial inclusion will be only unlocked if the space is regulated properly and includes public-private cooperation across developed and high-growth markets."

·weforum.org·
Governing the Coin: World Economic Forum Global Consortium for Digital Currency Governance
Digital money and central bank digital currency: An executive summary
Digital money and central bank digital currency: An executive summary
Central banks already issue digital money, but only to a select group of financial institutions. Central bank digital currency would extend this to households and firms. This column examines the proposal for such currency and assesses the opportunities and risks. It argues that while preparations for the launch of Libra have not proceeded according to plan, it has become clear that for central banks, maintaining the status quo is not an option.
·voxeu.org·
Digital money and central bank digital currency: An executive summary
Digital currencies: A question of trust
Digital currencies: A question of trust
This OMFIF report centres on the findings of a global opinion poll on public trust in monetary institutions, payment characteristics and digital currency. The poll was conducted by Ipsos MORI across 13 advanced and emerging countries. Our findings suggest that central banks are well-positioned to issue digital currency. In almost all countries, respondents indicated that they would feel most confident in digital money issued by the domestic monetary authority. Respondents globally expressed a lack of confidence in digital money issued by a tech or credit card company, particularly respondents from advanced economies.
·omfif.org·
Digital currencies: A question of trust
CBDC and Monetary Sovereignty
CBDC and Monetary Sovereignty
Wide adoption of a digital currency denominated in a different unit of account, such as Libra, presents a significant threat to monetary sovereignty and financial stability. Issuing a CBDC could potentially counter this threat. Making central bank money more user-friendly would increase its attractiveness as a means of payment in general and as an alternative to Libra in particular.
·bankofcanada.ca·
CBDC and Monetary Sovereignty
Trillion-Dollar Stimulus Jumpstarts Project To Issue Central Bank Currency On Ethereum
Trillion-Dollar Stimulus Jumpstarts Project To Issue Central Bank Currency On Ethereum
First conceived earlier this year, eThaler gets its name from the thaler, a silver coin used throughout Europe for hundreds of years, from which the word “dollar” is derived. A group of professionals from consulting firms Accenture and InfoSys and the Itau Bank in Brazil, have been working on the open-source project in their free time for the past six months to explore the future of central bank currency issued on a blockchain.
·forbes.com·
Trillion-Dollar Stimulus Jumpstarts Project To Issue Central Bank Currency On Ethereum
Private Companies Could Play Role in Digital Currency Issuance, Bank of England Says
Private Companies Could Play Role in Digital Currency Issuance, Bank of England Says
Although the BoE has said crypto-assets don't meet the necessary criteria to be considered money, CBDC analyst Ben Dyson said, "that doesn't mean that it's impossible for somebody to improve upon that technology and create something that much better fulfills the qualities of money... We've seen proposals over the last year from large technology firms, for example, to build payments systems and crypto-assets that could function more as stable money."
·coindesk.com·
Private Companies Could Play Role in Digital Currency Issuance, Bank of England Says
Launch of the OMFIF Digital Monetary Institute
Launch of the OMFIF Digital Monetary Institute
The Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum (OMFIF) has launched the Digital Monetary Institute, a high-level group of policy-makers, technologists, financiers and regulators to explore the challenges and opportunities of digital finance. The principal focus will be on payments instruments in wholesale and retail markets, with central bank digital currency being of particular interest.
·omfif.org·
Launch of the OMFIF Digital Monetary Institute
Stanford Future of Digital Currency Initiative
Stanford Future of Digital Currency Initiative
The Initiative will focus on Digital Currencies of all forms across the entire ecosystem spectrum, from centralized to decentralized to hybrids including Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) and stablecoins amongst many others. Currently, more than 40 central banks are exploring some form of digital currency initiative. The Initiative will undertake research and evaluation of technical standards for interoperability in collaboration with key government, NGO and private industry stakeholders. The Initiative will also study and implement emerging cross-border business use cases related to supply chain, financial markets, charitable giving and macroeconomic impact of these instruments on promoting financial inclusion.
·fdc.scs.stanford.edu·
Stanford Future of Digital Currency Initiative
Who Should Provide Central Bank Digital Currency?
Who Should Provide Central Bank Digital Currency?
With this in mind, central banks should champion sCBDC. Let private providers compete in providing some sort of central bank–sanctioned version of digital currency to the masses. The central bank can limit itself to maintaining the back end and offering a degree of regulation. If sCBDC does not work, the central bank’s reputation won’t be tarnished. And, if sCBDC does take off, the central bank need not worry about its attention being diverted by all the day-to-day concerns of interacting with a retail clientele.
·aier.org·
Who Should Provide Central Bank Digital Currency?
Fnality adviser: wholesale CBDCs not in central banks’ DNA
Fnality adviser: wholesale CBDCs not in central banks’ DNA
Fnality, formed of a consortium of 14 major banks, is aiming is to create the means of payment on-chain for financial markets by use of its Utility Settlement Coin (USC). The USC is similar to JPMorgan’s JPM Coin, but backed by central bank deposits. Fnality is currently seeking approval for such deposits from several central banks, including the Federal Reserve, the Bank of England and the European Central Bank, with the intentions to receive its first green light in Q3 of 2020.
·finextra.com·
Fnality adviser: wholesale CBDCs not in central banks’ DNA
Bank of England on payments after the Covid crisis – emerging issues and challenges
Bank of England on payments after the Covid crisis – emerging issues and challenges
Changes in the way we pay and the challenges we’ve seen over the past several months pose two important and interrelated questions for central banks and regulators. First, how do we ensure that we have legislative and supervisory frameworks in place to support development of safe private sector innovation that could respond to these challenges? Here, it is clear that we need to ensure that new ways to pay and new forms of electronic money are offer equivalent protections to existing ones. And second, what is the right role for central banks in provision of the money we use to transact? I’m looking forward to the discussion.
·bankofengland.co.uk·
Bank of England on payments after the Covid crisis – emerging issues and challenges
Central banks and payments in the digital era
Central banks and payments in the digital era
According to a special chapter of the BIS Annual Economic Report, digital innovation is radically reshaping the provision of payment services, and central banks are embracing this innovation. They promote interoperability, support competition and innovation, and operate public infrastructures - all essential for easily accessible, low-cost and high-quality payment services. And central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) can foster competition among private sector intermediaries, set high standards for safety and risk management, and serve as a basis for sound innovation in payments.
·bis.org·
Central banks and payments in the digital era
Private Sector Could Bring Value to Future CBDC Launches, Says IMF Official
Private Sector Could Bring Value to Future CBDC Launches, Says IMF Official
Tobias Adrian, a financial counselor and director of the IMF's Monetary and Capital Markets Department, gave a keynote address last week at the “Building CBDC: A Race To Reality” conference, sponsored by blockchain software firm R3. Adrian offered two models for the provision of a CBDC, varying in how they would pair the private sector with central banks. The first model looked at synthetic CBDCs (sCBDC), which are backed by the liabilities of a central bank but issued with the aid of a private entity, such as a commercial bank. The second, "two-tiered," model puts central banks in charge of the issuance of a CBDC and transaction settlement, with technology likely to be occasionally updated. As such, the sCBDC model would spur private sector-led innovation at a more "fundamental level," he said.
·coindesk.com·
Private Sector Could Bring Value to Future CBDC Launches, Says IMF Official
Stanford Partnership To Create Digital Currency Standards
Stanford Partnership To Create Digital Currency Standards
Stanford University’s Future of Digital Currency Program joined forces with the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), a United nations agency headed by China, to launch the Digital Currency Global Initiative (DGCI). The purpose is to conduct research on central bank digital currency (CBDC) and other digital currencies, aiming to identify areas for standardization to facilitate interoperability. This research will focus on technical architectures, security, technical implications and challenges in deployment caused by regulatory and policy requirements. It will also construct a set of metrics by which to evaluate the robustness of various digital currency technologies against the requirements set by various stakeholders.
·forbes.com·
Stanford Partnership To Create Digital Currency Standards
The Digital Programmable Euro, Libra and CBDC: Implications for European Banks
The Digital Programmable Euro, Libra and CBDC: Implications for European Banks
This study analyzes the impact of digital programmable Euro initiatives on banks, based on interviews with 50 senior experts. We find that both Libra and a Euro CBDC might heavily affect European banks. Experts fear that large-scale financial disintermediation of the financial sector could take place, and digital bank runs could be triggered. Besides these risks, our findings suggest that banks also have the opportunity to develop new business models stemming from these initiatives. Therefore, Libra and a CBDC Euro should not only be seen as threats but also as opportunities.
·researchgate.net·
The Digital Programmable Euro, Libra and CBDC: Implications for European Banks
Major Bank-Led Digital Cash Settlement Project Gets Delayed
Major Bank-Led Digital Cash Settlement Project Gets Delayed
Technological development work on the Fnality's "Utility Settlement Coin" initiative has progressed, but it still needs regulatory approval. It hopes to receive that approval by the first quarter of 2021. Initially spearheaded by UBS Group AG, the project has been in the works for more than five years and seeks to create a more efficient way for banks to settle financial transactions. In June 2019 banks including Barclays Plc, Banco Santander and Credit Suisse Group AG announced the creation of Fnality. The company had said it expected the project to be commercialized by 2020. The project is looking to replace some of the cumbersome processes and paperwork involved in transferring value between financial organizations by using wholesale stablecoins denominated in U.S. dollars, yen, euro, sterling and Canadian dollars, and backed by deposits at central banks (ie "synthetic" wholesale central bank digital currency).
·nytimes.com·
Major Bank-Led Digital Cash Settlement Project Gets Delayed
Bank of France: stablecoins could impact EU financial sovereignty ‘for decades’
Bank of France: stablecoins could impact EU financial sovereignty ‘for decades’

Bank of France: stablecoins could impact EU financial sovereignty ‘for decades’ Banque de France Governor Villeroy de Galhau warned that Big Techs, capitalizing on their global market penetration, will build private financial infrastructures and monetary systems, competing with the public monetary sovereignty since they will position themselves as issuers and managers of a universal currency. Prospective central bank digital currency (CBDC) could then end up being issued at the ‘backend of a future Big Tech stablecoin. Individual jurisdictions could then respond to the overwhelming pressure of private payments assets by issuing their own CBDCs, both domestically and globally — but without sufficient coordination in the global financial community. The articulation of these multiple CBDCs with private sector initiatives would risk sidelining input from other central banks. He stressed that the European Central Bank (ECB) and the Eurosystem as a whole cannot allow itself to “lag behind on a CBDC. https://www.bis.org/review/r200911e.htm

·cointelegraph.com·
Bank of France: stablecoins could impact EU financial sovereignty ‘for decades’
Visa’s Crypto Strategy Is Driving Its Next Stage Of Growth
Visa’s Crypto Strategy Is Driving Its Next Stage Of Growth
Forbes recently spoke with Terry Angelos, SVP global head of fintech at Visa and Cuy Sheffield, senior director, head of crypto at Visa. They revealed that one area that Visa has been spending time on is offline digital currency payments. When central banks think about CBDCs, one of the potential features that they are paying attention to is offline payments. There are a lot of technical challenges around enabling this functionality in a secure manner. So Visa is continuing to advance research on that front and will probably have more to talk about in the coming year.
·forbes.com·
Visa’s Crypto Strategy Is Driving Its Next Stage Of Growth
Digital Money Across Borders: Macro-Financial Implications
Digital Money Across Borders: Macro-Financial Implications
A new IMF paper explores the complex interactions between the incentives to adopt and use central bank digital currency (CBDC) and global stablecoins (GSCs) across borders and discusses the potential macro-financial effects. Overall, the paper finds that CBDCs do not qualitatively change the economic forces that lead to the international use of currencies, as they are only digital forms of existing fiat currencies but quantitatively, they could reinforce the incentives behind currency substitution and currency internationalization. A CBDC is not a one-size-fits-all solution for lackluster economies, and it won’t save nations with high inflation or similar domestic issues.
·imf.org·
Digital Money Across Borders: Macro-Financial Implications
PBoC seeks to revise banking law to legalize digital yuan and ban yuan-pegged tokens
PBoC seeks to revise banking law to legalize digital yuan and ban yuan-pegged tokens
The Peoples' Bank of China has included the digital yuan in the latest version of a proposed banking law, giving more legal clarity to the regulation of its national digital currency. The proposed law recognizes the renminbi in both physical and digital form. The new version will essentially also clear the way for the digital yuan to be the one and only official yuan-pegged token in mainland China by prohibiting circulation of any other yuan-pegged digital assets. Violaters of the regulation would have to forfeit any proceeds from issuing and selling of such yuan-backed digital tokens and face fines of up to five times the involved proceeds. http://www.pbc.gov.cn/goutongjiaoliu/113456/113469/4115077/index.html
·theblockcrypto.com·
PBoC seeks to revise banking law to legalize digital yuan and ban yuan-pegged tokens
From the payments revolution to the reinvention of money
From the payments revolution to the reinvention of money
European Central Bank Executive Board member Fabio Panetta is not keen to allow stablecoin issuers to invest their reserve assets in the form of risk-free deposits at the central bank. "It would be tantamount to outsourcing the provision of central bank money, and could endanger monetary sovereignty if, as a result, the stablecoin were to largely displace sovereign money as a means of payment. Money would then be reduced to a 'club good' offered in return for the payment of a fee or membership of a platform."
·ecb.europa.eu·
From the payments revolution to the reinvention of money
Russia's Sberbank may issue its own cryptocurrency, says CEO
Russia's Sberbank may issue its own cryptocurrency, says CEO
Russian state-owned Sberbank is working with JP Morgan on possibly issuing its own "Sbercoin" crypto-asset in 2021. The move follows the introduction of a new law, announced in July and coming into force on January 1, that makes permissible crypto-asset trading but forbids Russians from using crypto-assets as a means of payment. Olga Skorobogatova, Bank of Russia First Deputy Governor, said in a webinar that she opposed private companies that build digital rubles, but that the Russian central bank is still considering minting its own digital ruble. https://www.rbc.ru/crypto/news/5fc502c59a79472910473c16
·rbc.ru·
Russia's Sberbank may issue its own cryptocurrency, says CEO
Designing CBDC Using the Delphi-Analytic Network Process
Designing CBDC Using the Delphi-Analytic Network Process
The emergence of stablecoins is a growing concern for authorities worldwide including Indonesia as it could affect financial stability. Thus, if a central bank chooses to develop a central bank digital currency (CBDC) to tackle this problem, the design should conform to the country’s characteristics and consumer needs. This study draws on experts’ opinions from various economic agents and utilises an amalgamation of the analytic network process (ANP) and the Delphi method to show that the cash-like CBDC model is the most appropriate digital currency design for Indonesia, since it could enhance financial inclusion and reduce shadow banking in Indonesia.
·bmeb-bi.org·
Designing CBDC Using the Delphi-Analytic Network Process
Rising demand for programmable payments
Rising demand for programmable payments
A joint study by the German Federal Ministry of Finance and the Deutsche Bundesbank concluded that demand for programmable payments is rising in Germany. Smart contracts could be incorporated into conventional payment systems, but the extent to which they can be implemented and applied is limited. However, tokenized commercial bank money and central bank digital currency could bring the greatest functional benefit in terms of settling programmable payments. Both options are well-suited settlement solutions for programmable payments on account of the expected credibility of their issuers and their use within a binding legal framework.
·bundesbank.de·
Rising demand for programmable payments
The Impact of Digital Currency on the Future of Payments
The Impact of Digital Currency on the Future of Payments
Money is the indispensable lubricant of our modern global economy and society. The emergence of Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) as a new form of money is therefore a development of profound importance. It will transform a key element upon which the livelihoods of peoples around the world depend. This is a global phenomenon. The engines of its progress are, in the early stages, being ignited by and within individual jurisdictions. From these starting points, its impact will extend beyond physical boundaries, to be felt across the emerging digital landscape. (Whitechapel Think Tank)
·whitechapelthinktank.co.uk·
The Impact of Digital Currency on the Future of Payments
Payments innovation beyond the pandemic
Payments innovation beyond the pandemic
The Bank of Canada's work to prepare its contingency plan for launching a central bank digital currency (CBDC) has accelerated, driven by a sharp decline in the acceptance of cash. If this trend continues beyond the pandemic and/or private digital currencies take hold as means of payment, the Bank could be pushed over the edge. If the latter scenario emerges, a central bank, with no commercial motivation to harvest data, is uniquely positioned to build into its digital currency safeguards for privacy, while at the same time defending against criminal uses. Universal access would need to be another key feature of a central bank digital currency. Meanwhile, the Bank has been researching and experimenting with different technologies, and engaged three university project teams to independently develop proposals for what a digital currency ecosystem could look like. Their reports will be published on February 11.
·bankofcanada.ca·
Payments innovation beyond the pandemic
Bermuda to Pilot Digital Dollar for Rum Sales
Bermuda to Pilot Digital Dollar for Rum Sales
Canadian fintech firm Bidali has reportedly launched a pilot to test a digital Bermuda dollar with the support of the Bermuda government. Under the pilot program, popular local rum company Gosling’s Limited will be accepting digital Bermuda dollars through the Stellar network. From there it hopes to expand to other businesses in Bermuda. Bermuda is a British island territory that does not have a central bank and the Bermuda dollar is pegged one-to-one to the U.S. dollar - it's effectively a non-digital government-issued stablecoin with one USD in reserve for every Bermuda Dollar that’s issued. Also, since 2019, Bermudans have been able to pay taxes with USDC stablecoins.
·coindesk.com·
Bermuda to Pilot Digital Dollar for Rum Sales
Digital Currencies and Bank Competition
Digital Currencies and Bank Competition
This article examines how the issuance of a digital currency by a non-bank operator impacts competition between banks in a cashless society. Unlike banks, the digital currency provider is not allowed to engage in maturity transformation. I analyze how the fee charged for the digital currency impacts the interest rates on loans and the fees charged by banks to depositors for paying from their bank account and opening an account in a bank. I derive the conditions under which consumers use the digital currency to pay. I also discuss how the distribution mode of the digital currency may impact its use for payments.
·acpr.banque-france.fr·
Digital Currencies and Bank Competition
Bank of England publishes policy for omnibus accounts in RTGS
Bank of England publishes policy for omnibus accounts in RTGS
The Bank of England unveiled a new type of omnibus account as part of its real-time gross settlement (RTGS) service. Under the new model, an operator of a payment system can hold funds in the omnibus account to fund their participants’ balances with central bank money. An omnibus account co-mingles funds from different entities for the purposes of wholesale settlement. The new type of account is not limited to wholesale transactions such as buying gilts, but can be used to settle transactions on behalf of customers, such as a small business paying a supplier.
·bankofengland.co.uk·
Bank of England publishes policy for omnibus accounts in RTGS
Fnality recognises a major market milestone
Fnality recognises a major market milestone
Fnality sees the new Bank of England omnibus accounts as supportive of the opportunity to use tokenized cash assets on next generation payment systems, enabling on-chain wholesale exchange of value. Fnality uses an Etheruem-based permissioned blockchain developed by Clearmatics, that will run on chain payment systems in multiple currencies with a regulated subsidiary in each jurisdiction. When a bank wants to use Fnality tokens to make a payment, it transfers money from its central bank account to the Fnality omnibus account, which then tokenizes it. The bank then uses the tokens to make a payment, and the recipient bank can then opt to convert the received tokens back to central bank money and have it transferred to its own central bank account. Or it could use the tokens for further payments.
·fnality.org·
Fnality recognises a major market milestone