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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

Olga Gouveia
Olga Gouveia Lead economist for Financial systems
BBVA Research
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Enestor Dos Santos
Enestor Dos Santos Principal economist for Global economics
BBVA Research
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Santiago Fernández de Lis
Santiago Fernández de Lis BBVA Financial regulation More information
Alejandro Neut
Alejandro Neut Lead economist for Long-term analysis, digital economy & social sustainability
BBVA Research
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Javier Sebastián

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