The Role of the Central Bank in Cryptocurrency

Christine Lagarde: We have been operating as a monetary anchor in relation to the commercial banks and the private money. If we are not involved in experimenting in innovating in terms of digital,. uh, central bank money, we risk losing the role of Anchor that we have played for many, many decades," she says. "I would say certainly not from our vantage point as a result of which we have to respond to the demand for those digital payments"