Global CBDC strategies, technologies, and challenges
During the first wave of the pandemic, over 80 million adults in India made their first digital merchant payment. It’s because most of them were concerned about the hygiene of currency notes since they get exchanged very frequently. Such widespread events have changed their mindset about making payments, and they are slowly shifting toward adopting digital currency payment technology for processing cashless transactions. Paying close attention to consumer psychology and the evolution of blockchain and cryptocurrency in financial services, central banks from all over the world have adapted to the wave of digital currencies. In this blog, we will go through the global strategies and impact of CBDC on the financial ecosystem and why this currency needs to be issued worldwide! What is a CBDC? You are probably wondering, what exactly is a CBDC? Well, CBDC stands for Central Bank Digital Currency and is a digital form of money issued by central banks that has a fixed...