The (Near) Future of Central Bank Digital Currencies: Risks and Opportunities for the Global Economy and Society

ISBN-13: 9783034342759 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 202 str.

Nicola Bilotta; Fabrizio Botti

Opis

This book provides an overview of the approaches, features and implications of CBDCs. It briefly explores the current literature on CBDCs and provides concrete example of this innovation's stage of development

Spis treści

Introduction

CBDCs: The (Near?) Future of a Cashless Economy

CBDC in the Broad Context of National Payments System Development

Central Bank Digital Currency and the Future Financial System

Central Bank Digital Currencies and Law

The Digital Euro: Challenges and Opportunities

Digital Currency Initiatives on the African Continent

China's New Digital Currency: Implications for Renminbi Internationalization and the US Dollar

CBDCs and Stablecoins: The Scramble for (Controllable) Anonymity

Digital Currency: A Global Regulatory Framework is Needed

Conclusion

O autorze

Nicola Bilotta is a researcher at the Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI) in the international political economy area. Previously, he worked as a senior research analyst at The Banker Research Team (Financial Times), with which he still collaborates. He was associate fellow at the Seven Pillar Institute of Finance & Ethics and associate researcher at the Istituto di Alti Studi di Geopolitica e Scienze Ausiliari.

Fabrizio Botti is Senior Fellow in the field of economics and finance at Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI) and Intesa Sanpaolo Fellow. He is also Research Fellow at Guglielmo Marconi University. He is core member of "Minerva - Laboratory on Gender Diversity and Gender Inequality" at the Department of Statistics of Sapienza University of Rome. Previously he was Marie Curie Fellow at the Faculty of Economics and Politics of University of Cambridge and Visiting Fellow at the Centre for African Studies of Florida University.