UK government establishes central bank digital currency task force

Her Majesty’s Treasury and the Bank of England have begun preliminary central bank digital currency studies that could result in the creation of a national digital currency. In a document published by HM Treasury, the exchequer announced the creation of a CBDC taskforce in collaboration with the U.K.’s central bank. Jon Cunliffe, deputy governor of…
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19 April 2021 0