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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

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Spanish - March 29, 2017

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English - March 29, 2017

Authors

OG
Olga Gouveia BBVA Research - Lead Economist
ED
Enestor Dos Santos BBVA Research - Principal Economist
SF
Santiago Fernández de Lis BBVA Regulation - Head of Regulation
AN
Alejandro Neut BBVA Research - Lead Economist
JS
Javier Sebastián
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