Central Bank Digital Currencies: assessing implementation possibilities and impacts
Published on Wednesday, March 29, 2017 | Updated on Sunday, May 13, 2018
Document number 17/05
Central Bank Digital Currencies: assessing implementation possibilities and impacts
Summary
Following advances in the distributed ledger technology, central banks are assessing the issuance of digital currency. There's a range of possible schemes to adopt depending on which features of cash to hold: universality, anonymity and non-yield bearing. We analyze opportunities and challenges of 4 key schemes, that support a strategy of gradual testing and implementation
Geographies
- Geography Tags
- Global
Topics
- Topic Tags
- Digital Regulation
- Banks
- Digital Economy
Authors
Olga Gouveia
BBVA Research - Lead Economist
Enestor Dos Santos
BBVA Research - Principal Economist
Santiago Fernández de Lis
BBVA Regulation - Head of Regulation
Alejandro Neut
BBVA Research - Lead Economist
Javier Sebastián
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