BREAKDOWN: The Timeline for Central Bank Digital Currencies Is Accelerating
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🗓️ 12 September 2021
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
A reading of a recent speech from the Bank for International Settlements.
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A reading of a recent speech by Benoit Cœuré, the head of the BIS Innovation Hub, on “Central bank digital currency: the future starts today.”
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. |
| 0:09.1 | It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big-picture power shifts remaking our world. |
| 0:16.3 | The breakdown is sponsored by Nidig and produced and distributed by CoinDesk. |
| 0:22.6 | What's going on, guys? It is Sunday, September 12th, and that means it's time for Long Reads Sunday. |
| 0:29.0 | And today we are reading a speech from last week's Euro5 Financial Forum. |
| 0:34.3 | It's a speech by Benoit Curie, who's the head of the BIS Innovation Hub, BIS being, of course, |
| 0:40.2 | the Bank for International Settlements. For those of you who are not familiar, the Bank for |
| 0:44.6 | international settlements is basically the central banker central bank. And so understanding where |
| 0:49.5 | their heads are at with issues regarding digital assets, cryptocurrencies, and, as we'll discuss today, |
| 0:55.6 | central bank digital currencies, gives a sense of where the mainstream of central banker thought |
| 1:01.0 | might be. The speech is called Central Bank Digital Currency, The Future, starts today. |
| 1:07.9 | Distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, thank you for inviting me to speak here today. |
| 1:11.6 | We all experienced how the pandemic accelerated the shift to virtual events, but I am pleased that today we are gathering in person. |
| 1:17.6 | Yet the world is not returning to the old normal. Payments are a case in point. The pandemic has accelerated a longer running move to digital. |
| 1:25.6 | Mobile and contactless payments are already a part of |
| 1:28.0 | our daily lives. QR codes and buy now pay later options are gaining popularity. Gloves, badges, and |
| 1:33.7 | Olympic uniforms with payment functions are being prepared for the Beijing Winter Olympics. |
| 1:37.9 | And the tech-savvy generation will soon dream about money and payments for the Metaverse. |
| 1:42.0 | Alongside these developments, the world central banks are stepping up efforts to prepare the ground for digital cash, central bank digital currency, |
| 1:48.1 | or CBDC. They have a job to do, delivering price stability and financial stability, and they |
| 1:52.7 | must retain their ability to do it. Let me explain. Central bank money has unique advantages, |
| 1:58.0 | safety, finality, liquidity, and integrity. As our economies |
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