The charm of central bank digital currencies in a polarised world
The Sound of Economics
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The Importance of Financial Inclusion in CBDCs
11 countries that have launched a CBDC are all very much emerging market economies. The ECB, from the US, from the Bank of England, there's a keen interest in being international standard setters in this space. Wholesale CBDCs can create near instant, important to say, near instant settlement between other banks. But we've seen an increase in money spent on this technology over the past seven months.
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