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EU wholesale CBDC plans to publish within weeks, France central bank governor says – Crypto News

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European Union central banks will publish plans for a wholesale central bank digital currency (CBDC) in the coming weeks, François Villeroy de Galhau, the governor of France’s central bank, said at a Tuesday event in Paris.

See related article: US legislators to discuss CBDC prevention bill on Sept. 20

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  • Galhau said CBDC experiments will be rolled out next year, including trials with real transactions.
  • He added that a permissioned network using smart contracts would enable banks to continue governing the money supply in the economy, which central bankers say is important for managing inflation and maintaining financial stability.
  • A wholesale CBDC is primarily used by financial institutions for interbank settlements rather than every day transactions that are enabled by a retail CBDC. 
  • The development comes three months after the EU published two proposals, including one for the digital euro, the European Central Bank’s CBDC.
  • Villeroy de Galhau said that the central bank will be exploring blockchain and alternative protocols for settlement, besides the bank’s own Distributed Ledger for Securities Settlement System (DL3S), which is a permissioned blockchain designed for settlement via CBDC.

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