Future of money will be public-private effort, says ex-CFTC chairman
Will CBDCs disrupt stablecoins, or will they help each other? The public and private sectors should work closely together to bring about the future of money, according to a former leader of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.Chris Giancarlo, a former CFTC chairman and initiator of a blockchain-based digital dollar project, joined the Singapore Fintech Festival 2020 to discuss the future of stablecoins and central bank digital currencies, or CBDCs.At a Tuesday panel called “Will CBDCs disrupt stablecoins?,” Giancarlo declared that the future of money depends on close government....
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