Central Banks `Waking Up´ to Digital Currency, Create New Framework for CBDC Deployment with World Economic Forum
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Amanda Russo, Public Engagement, World Economic Forum: arus@weforum.org; +1 415 734 0589 · Increased interest in central bank digital currency (CBDC) has accelerated research and development globally · World Economic Forum and a community of over 40 central banks, international organizations, academic researchers and financial institutions have created a framework to help central banks evaluate, design and potentially deploy CBDC · National Bank of Cambodia has already piloted a quasi-form of CBDC for its national payments system; Central Bank of Uruguay and the Bank of Thailand are applying the toolkit to its CBDC evaluation process; People`s Bank of China, Eastern Caribbean Central Bank...