Barclays explores digital pound design options
Barclays published a paper exploring options for various digital pound functionality. It concludes an FMI should be responsible.
CBDC Central Bank Digital Currency Digital PoundCboe Clear Europe, the largest pan-European clearing house, has successfully participated in the Eurosystems recent exploratory work testing the use of new technologies for the settlement of wholesale transactions in central bank money. The experiments specifically aim to explore the potential of distributed ledger technology (DLT).
CBDCBarclays published a paper exploring options for various digital pound functionality. It concludes an FMI should be responsible.
CBDC Central Bank Digital Currency Digital PoundAfter the real-time gross settlement crash in July, the BOE is looking for a solution to update the network, proposing synchronization for the revamp while considering wCBDCs as an alternative to the current system.
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In a new discussion paper, the U.K. central bank also said it wants to ensure stablecoins are interchangeable with the pound.
CBDCThe Bank of England is planning wholesale CBDC (wCBDC) trials alongside RTGS synchronized payments as in Project Meridian
CBDC Central Bank Digital CurrencyCboe Clear Europe tested the use of a wholesale CBDC for margin calls as part of the Eurosystem wholesale DLT settlement trials
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