{"id":10067,"date":"2024-01-31T12:52:01","date_gmt":"2024-01-31T11:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gfrid.org\/?p=10067"},"modified":"2024-01-31T12:52:01","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T11:52:01","slug":"the-imfs-perspective-on-cbdcs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gfrid.org\/the-imfs-perspective-on-cbdcs\/","title":{"rendered":"The IMF\u2019s perspective on CBDCs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New forms of money and new technologies have the potential to improve payment systems, enhance financial inclusion, and facilitate cross-border payments. In particular, central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) have gained significant attention, with approximately 60 percent of countries exploring their potential. The IMF has a unique view across these efforts and we have done our own exploration of CBDCs\u2019 potential\u2014including the publication of the new\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imf.org\/en\/Topics\/fintech\/central-bank-digital-currency\/virtual-handbook\">CBDC Virtual Handbook<\/a> that provides guidance to countries exploring the topic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New forms of money and new technologies have the potential to improve payment systems, enhance financial inclusion, and facilitate cross-border payments. In particular, central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) have gained significant attention, with approximately 60 percent of countries exploring their potential. The IMF has a unique view across these efforts and we have done our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"correlation-with-networks":[56],"gfrid-related":[],"region":[26],"topic":[30],"acf":[],"lang":"en","translations":{"en":10067},"pll_sync_post":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gfrid.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10067"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gfrid.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gfrid.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfrid.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfrid.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10067"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gfrid.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10068,"href":"https:\/\/gfrid.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10067\/revisions\/10068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gfrid.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfrid.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfrid.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10067"},{"taxonomy":"correlation-with-networks","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfrid.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/correlation-with-networks?post=10067"},{"taxonomy":"gfrid-related","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfrid.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gfrid-related?post=10067"},{"taxonomy":"region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfrid.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/region?post=10067"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfrid.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=10067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}