"There are three key factors," says Keith Bear. "1) You need access; 2) You need trust (you need privacy, the @bankofengland, for example, is committed to this); and 3) There has to be utility."
"Central banks are not interested in controlling how people spend their money. That's not their mission. They're there to manage the macro." says @gverdian. "The onus is on the commercial banks to make sure they comply with the relevant policies."
"On the commercial bank side, the risk is that their sources of funding become more precarious." says Barney Reynolds. "Maturity transformation is necessary. DLT causes us to revisit some basic propositions but we should't tear up the basics."
"The governance rules needs to be written very carefully." says Barney Reynolds. "It's not as simple as saying the Bank will never see personal details."
"The @bankofengland paper suggests a CBDC by 2030," says Ricardo Correia. "I predict we'll see, within the next five years, the roll out of some CBDCs in lesser economies."
"CBDC is a very safe asset, and not just because of the issuer," says Barney Reynolds. "You have the simplest legal structure. The fewer moving parts, the better from that perspective."
"We have all inherited very fragmented payment systems in every country," says @gverdian. "So how to integrate them? What needs solving is the gateway to gateway integration between networks."
"One of the key purposes of a CBDC is to support the future state of the digital economy," says Keith Bear. "We'd expect atomic settlement between tokenised cash and assets."
"We are becoming a more digital society. We need a new form of money, a new instrument to cater for the new way we live," says @gverdian. "A CBDC is a natural fit. It's trusted and backed by the central bank. Non-CBDC assets are simply less reliable."
“The bad news is I’m a central banker and we don’t tend to speak for less than 45 mins. The good news is I’ll be about 25 mins today,” jokes Sir Jon Cunliffe of @bankofengland.
“As the use of cash has diminished, commercial bank digital money has come to dominate transactions in the UK,” says Sir Jon Cunliffe of @bankofengland. “But we will continue to issue cash as long as there is any demand for it.”
“Tokenisation and smart contracts offer many benefits,” says Sir Jon Cunliffe of @bankofengland. “This has major implications for us. We’re ultimately responsible for ensuring that each of the monies circulating is robust and uniform.”
“As the world around us and the way we pay for things becomes more digitalised, the case for a digital pound in the future continues to grow," says Andrew Bailey, governor of the @BankOfEngland.
“While cash is here to stay, a digital pound issued and backed by the @BankOfEngland could be a new way to pay that’s trusted, accessible and easy to use,” chancellor @Jeremy_Hunt said.
“CBDCs could equip central banks with new tools to significantly help soften the impact of forthcoming financial crises, given they would provide a real-time view of risks and currency outflows,” @techmjh, our Chief Product Officer said.
Our CPO, @techmjh recently spoke to Lauren Mills at @IPEnews in an article, ‘Private markets: Is tokenisation a good idea?’
He says, “blockchain will have massive transformational impact across the whole of financial services.”
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Martin adds, “tokenisation reduces the need for intermediaries and time-consuming manual processes. With a correctly set-up token, you can also see the beneficial owners of the underlying assets, reducing the cost of compliance and anti-money laundering procedures.”
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“Over the next few years, trust will be a huge factor that determines the adoption rate of tokenisation within asset management. Investors will need certainty that fund managers can link the token to the real economic rights of the underlying asset,” says @techmjh.
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"It makes sense for us to lead with custody," says Butler. "We see it as foundational - execution is next. Clients come to us for trust, innovation, and client experience. Interoperability is key."
"You open up these technologies to people and you don't know what they're going to do with them," says Herkelrath. "Multiple concerts this summer were carried out as NFTs. You got more of an experience and you have a collectable. That's fascinating for the future."