{"id":187579,"date":"2021-04-19T10:13:10","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T09:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/?p=187579"},"modified":"2021-04-22T12:03:43","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T11:03:43","slug":"digital-currency-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/digital-currency-england\/","title":{"rendered":"World&#8217;s eight-oldest bank to explore the launch of a digital currency (CBDC)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bank of England (BoE), the UK\u2019s central bank and the world's eighth-oldest bank, said it would form a task force to explore the launch of a <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/cbdcs\/\">digital currency<\/a>, as per an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bankofengland.co.uk\/news\/2021\/april\/bank-of-england-statement-on-central-bank-digital-currency\">official release<\/a> today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe Bank of England and HM Treasury have today announced the joint creation of a Central Bank Digital Currency (<a href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/cbdcs\/\">CBDC<\/a>) Taskforce to coordinate the exploration of a potential UK CBDC,\u201d it explained.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>CBDCs, in their current theoretic form, are state-backed digital currencies pegged to their respective national fiat currency that is operated wholly digitally. Proponents hope these would use a blockchain (public, semi-public, or private), and hence provide more privacy to individuals apart from reducing fraud (addresses can be universally blacklisted, etc.)<\/p>\n<p>The announcement comes on the back of previous statements by officials who said the country wasn't keen on <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/bank-of-england-governor-is-bearish-on-bitcoin-but-sees-growth-of-cbdcs\/\">developing the local cryptocurrency sector<\/a> but saw CBDCs playing a huge role in the future.<\/p>\n<h2>&#8216;New' form of money<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The BoE the potential digital currency would be a <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">new form of digital money<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> issued by the Bank of England and for use by households and businesses. \u201cIt would exist alongside cash and bank deposits, rather than replacing them,\u201d it said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>China is the forerunner of CBDCs today. Its upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/6-chinese-banks-are-testing-the-upcoming-digital-yuan-dcep\/\">DCEP<\/a>, short for Digital Currency Electronic Payment, is slated for a mid-2022 launch and is already being extensively tested in local regions. Other countries like France, South Korea, and Japan are weighing their own digital currency launches\u2014and England does not want to be left behind.<\/p>\n<p>In the statement, the British Government and the Bank of England said they have not yet made a decision on whether to introduce a CBDC in the UK, but will &#8216;engage widely' with stakeholders on the benefits, risks, and practicalities of doing so.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Taskforce aims to ensure a strategic approach is adopted between the UK authorities as they explore CBDC, in line with their statutory objectives, and to promote close coordination between them,&#8221; the bank noted.<\/p>\n<h2>Key areas of CBDC development<\/h2>\n<p>The Four major areas of focus of the CBDC Taskforce would be as follows:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>To coordinate the exploration of the objectives, use cases, opportunities, and risks of a potential UK CBDC.<\/li>\n<li>To Guide evaluation of the design features a CBDC must display to achieve our goals.<\/li>\n<li>Support a rigorous, coherent, and comprehensive assessment of the overall case for a UK CBDC.<\/li>\n<li>Monitor international CBDC developments to ensure the UK remains at the forefront of global innovation.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Meanwhile, two forums would be established for officials and stakeholders to discuss the technicalities and legalities of the CBDC.<\/p>\n<p>An &#8216;Engagement Forum'\u00a0 would see senior stakeholders gathering strategic input on all non-technology aspects of the digital currency such as helping the Bank and HM Treasury understand the practical challenges of designing, implementing, and operating a CBDC.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, a &#8216;Technology Forum' would engage stakeholders and gather input on all technical aspects of digital currencies and helping the Bank to understand the technological challenges of designing, implementing, and operating such an instrument.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bank of England (BoE), the UK\u2019s central bank and the world&#8217;s eighth-oldest bank, said it would form a task force to explore the launch of a digital currency, as per an official release today. \u201cThe Bank of England and HM Treasury have today announced the joint creation of a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) Taskforce [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":187600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,76747,76669],"tags":[],"prediction_market_topic":[],"post_folder":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v21.9 (Yoast SEO v21.9.1) - 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