Banque de France wholesale CBDC experiments explore non-bank usage - Ledger Insights
4 months ago On Thursday, details about the Banque de France‘s wholesale digital euro experiments were shared. Governor François Villeroy de Galhau outlined the tests’ objectives, one of which is to see whether central bank money should be accessible to organizations that don’t currently have access. The same point also came up in the recent Swiss National Bank‘s (SNB) trials for wholesale CBDC. The purpose of wholesale CBDCs is often to enable settlement on DLT platforms, in the Swiss case, it was tested against the SIX digital exchange. One of the issues raised in the Swiss Nat...