Ex-People’s Bank Chief Says Digital Yuan Not Planned to Replace Global Curren...
"We are not like Libra and we don’t have an ambition to replace existing currencies,” said a former governor of the People's Bank of China.
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China wants to allow foreign athletes and visitors to use the county’s digital currency during the Beijing Winter Olympics in 2022. China’s central bank is looking to enable foreign athletes and visitors to use the country’s digital currency during the Beijing Winter Olympics in 2022, according to a top central bank official.Li Bo, deputy governor of the People’s Bank of China, said that the upcoming Winter Olympics could potentially become the first test of China’s central bank digital currency, or CBDC, by foreign users.“For the upcoming Beijing Winter Olympics, we were trying to make....
China’s CBDC hit 62 billion yuan in total transactions processed, according to PBoC’s digital currency head. China’s trials with central bank digital currency (CBDC) show no signs of slowing down, as the updated numbers for October 2021 were revealed at Hong Kong Fintech Week.Set out to replace cash in day-to-day transactions, the digital yuan (e-CNY) is gaining traction among individuals and corporates alike, according to the People’s Bank of China’s (PBoC) Digital Currency Institute head Mu Changchun. Speaking at the conference on Wednesday, Mu said the number of individual digital yuan....