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Barry Eichengreen thinks policymakers’ race to roll out new payment vehicles is being driven by some questionable assumptions.

Sweden working on e-krona project as central banks consider digital currencies Central banks are looking at launching such currencies in response to a decline in the use of cash and to speed up payments 06 April 2021 - 13:44 Colm Fulton Swedish krona. Picture: 123RF/JANUSZ PIEŃKOWSKI Stockholm — Sweden’s central bank will bring in banks in the coming year to test how its proposed digital currency — the e-krona — could handle commercial and retail payments in the ...

(Shutterstock) Digital Central Bank Money: Long Time in Coming Digital currencies from central banks are only at the beginning of their development. But they are coming, despite numerous risks: That is the tenor at the Crypto Finance Conference in St. Moritz. With one representative each from the Swiss National Bank (SNB) and the Swedish Riksbank, the different approaches to digital central bank currencies (CBDC) were well represented at the Crypto Finance Conference St. Moritz 2021. The SNB i...