The Engineering and Design Problems of Building a US Dollar CBDC

The central bank that runs the major global reserve currency has largely resisted the temptation to join the increasingly animated debate about central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). But this summer will see the publication by the Federal Reserve of a major consultation paper on making the US dollar available as a CBDC. The peculiar challenges of turning the US Dollar into a CBDC is one of the topics Future of Finance co-founder Dominic Hobson raised with Jim Cunha, an SVP at the Boston Fed who has added applied research into CBDCS to his long experience and expertise in payments, technology, innovation, security and fraud prevention. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.