China proposes global rules for central bank digital currencies
France, March 25, 2021 /AlexaBlockchain/ – China leads the way on global standards for central bank digital currencies by proposing a set of global rules for CBDC. China proposed a set of global rules for CBDC on Thursday, from how they can be used around the world to highly sensitive issues such as monitoring and information sharing.
Global central banks are looking at developing digital currencies to modernize their financial systems, ward off the threat from cryptocurrencies like bitcoin and speed up domestic and international payments. China is one of the most advanced in its effort.
- Mu Changchun, the director-general of the PBOC’s digital currency institute, laid out the new proposals at a Bank for International Settlements seminar.
- “Interoperability should be enabled between CBDC (central bank digital currency) systems of different jurisdictions and exchange,” Mu said.
- The People’s Bank of China (PBoC) had shared the proposals with other central banks and monetary authorities, Mu said.
- “Information flow and fund flows should be synchronised so as to facilitate regulators to monitor the transactions for compliance”
- “We also propose a scalable and overseen foreign exchange platform supported by DLT (distributed ledger technology like blockchain) or other technologies.”
As digital currencies such as bitcoin gain more traction with mainstream companies and investors, and as private efforts like the Facebook-backed Diem seek approval, the onus is on central banks to accelerate plans to issue digital cash to fend off threats to their control over money.
The PBOC is aiming to become the first major central bank to issue a CBDC, part of its push to internationalise the yuan and reduce dependence on the dollar-dominated global banking system.