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| | Spring Meetings Bring Heightened Focus on Central Bank Digital Currencies
The 2019 IMF/World Bank Spring Meetings in Washington DC brought together finance ministers, central bank governors and other senior officials from more than 180 countries to discuss the global economy, and consider key policy and structural issues. This year, within the framework of the New Economic Forum, the IMF explored two key areas of financial innovation and fintech - Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) and the Economics of Data. |
| Reference Architecture Working Group of the ITU FG DFC The Reference Architecture Working Group of the ITU-T Focus Group Digital Currency including Digital Fiat Currency convened on April 11, 2019 in Washington DC. An interesting topic discussed was the use of CBDC for e-money interoperability. The growth of e-money industry would be even faster if e-money systems could inter-operate more effectively. |
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| eCurrency Presents at Future of Cash Conference in Athens, Greece Central Banks, commercial banks, and paper note and coin industry suppliers gathered to discuss the issues of decreased cash use at the Future of Cash Conference in February 2019. Mitch Cohen, eCurrency Chief Security Officer, presented Central Bank Digital Currency enabled by eCurrency technology as another form of central bank money for the digital world. |
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| eSDR™Solution for Cross-Border Payments eCurrency announces a solution to enable financial service providers to conduct cross-border payments using a global digital composite asset of stable value named eSDR™. A white paper examining the opportunities to reduce cost, increase efficiency, mitigate counter-party risk and improve transparency of cross-border payments using the eCurrency eSDR solution for financial service providers and central banks is available here. |
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| PoC: Experience the Future of MoneyAn increasing number of central banks are investigating the feasibility of issuing a digital fiat currency. eCurrency digital fiat currency proof of concept service provides central banks with a firm basis to asses the various design considerations of digital fiat currency and their implications. Request more information here. |
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