BIS, IMF, WB call for global coordination on CBDCs

Author: Agencies

About 90 percent of the world’s central banks are currently looking at creating digital versions of their currencies.
The Bank for International Settlements, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank made a joint call on Friday for global cooperation on central bank digital currencies. Around 90 percent of the world’s central banks are currently looking at creating digital versions of their currencies, raising questions about how they will work and operate with each other.

“Central bank digital currencies (CBDC) offer the opportunity to start with a clean slate. It is crucially important that central banks take the cross-border dimension into account,” Jon Cunliffe, chair of the committee on payments and market infrastructures and deputy governor for financial stability of the Bank of England, said in a report prepared for the G20 meeting in Italy.

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