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Could Central Bank Digital Currency Increase Financial Inclusion in the United States?

Overview

Date 04:05 PM - 04:55 PM (0 hours 50 minutes)
Tuesday, April 18
Track
Practical Strategies
Event
In-person

U.S. households rely on cash, money orders, and other paper-based mechanisms that can be costly and inconvenient. Central Bank Digital Currency, or CBDC, can provide a digital money alternative for unbanked consumers. CBDC can offer cash-like characteristics such as privacy, real-time settlement, finality of settlement and trust in the issuer. In this session, speakers share initial research results and upcoming work to explore the factors inhibiting access to mainstream electronic payment and account services, identify CBDC design features that could address these barriers and test the effectiveness of CBDC in increasing financial inclusion.

Speakers:

K
Ken Isaacson
Senior Vice President
Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
P
Paul Wong
Director of Product for CBDC and Institutional Assets
Stellar Development Foundation