The Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) anticipates that the introduction of a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), slated for 2022, will serve to bolster government service delivery and boost financial inclusion for a greater number of Jamaicans.
Governor, Richard Byles, said that the challenges arising in relation to the deployment of funds to beneficiaries under the multibillion-dollar COVID-19 Allocation of Resources to Employees (CARE) Programme, highlights the need for the CBDC.
âThe simple act of trying to get government support out to those who [were] most in need became very difficult, because many Jamaicans are not part of the financial network and also because a lot of the banking [arrangements are] still not digitised. I think that there is a greater need for financial inclusion and digitisation of the Jamaican economy, and that is one of the issues that we hope to rectify with the CBDC,â he said.
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