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Central Bank digital currencies : a framework for assessing why and how

Fung, Ben Siu-cheong; Hałaburda, Hanna - 2016

Digital currencies have attracted strong interest in recent years and have the potential to become widely adopted for use in making payments. Public authorities and central banks around the world are closely monitoring developments in digital currencies and studying their implications for the...

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Revisiting the monetary sovereignty rationale for CBDCs

Brooks, Skylar - 2021

As currently articulated, the monetary sovereignty argument for central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) rests on the idea that without them, private and foreign digital monies could displace domestic currencies (a process called currency substitution), threatening the central bank's monetary...

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Stablecoin assessment framework

García, Alejandro; Lands, Bena; Yanchus, Dennis - 2021

We outline a three-step framework to investigate stablecoin arrangements and quantitatively assess their risk. The first step is to classify the stablecoin arrangement into three parts-coin structure, transfer system(s) and financial service(s) - and categorize the attributes of each part. The...

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An exploration of First Nations reserves and access to cash

Chen, Heng; Engert, Walter; Huynh, Kim P.; O'Habib, Daneal - 2021

Providing bank notes is one of the Bank of Canada’s core functions. The Bank is therefore interested in whether cash is adequately distributed across society, and this also influences the Bank’s thinking on issuing a central bank digital currency. We provide a perspective on these issues by...

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Identifying financially remote First Nations reserves

Chen, Heng; Engert, Walter; Huynh, Kim P.; O'Habib, Daneal - 2022

Chen et al. (2021) show that almost one-third of First Nations band offices in Canada are within 1 kilometre (km) of an automated banking machine (ABM) or financial institution (FI) branch and more than half are within 5 km. Further, over three-quarters of band offices are within 20 km of an ABM...

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Cash and COVID-19 : what happened in 2021

Chen, Heng; Engert, Walter; Huynh, Kim P.; O'Habib, Daneal - 2022

We provide an update on the impact the COVID-19 pandemic on the demand for cash and the use of methods of payment based on data from the Bank Note Distribution System and from consumer surveys conducted in April and August 2021. Our key findings are as follows: Cash in circulation remained high...

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Bitcoin awareness, ownership and use : 2016-20

Balutel, Daniela; Felt, Marie-Hélène; Nicholls, Gradon; … - 2022

Since 2016, the Bank of Canada has conducted annual surveys to monitor awareness, adoption and usage of Bitcoin and … other cryptocurrencies (Henry et al. 2018, 2019a, 2019b). This report incorporates results from the 2019 Bitcoin Omnibus … Survey and the November 2020 Cash Alternative Survey. We find that between 2018 and 2020, the level of Bitcoin awareness and …

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Cash and COVID-19: the impact of the pandemic on the demand for and use of cash

Chen, Heng; Engert, Walter; Huynh, Kim P.; Nicholls, Gradon - 2020

Consumer spending declined significantly during the recent COVID-19 pandemic. This negative shock likely reduced spending across all methods of payment (cash, debit, credit, etc.). As well, the mix of payment methods that consumers use could also be affected. This paper is a first step in...

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2019 Cash Alternative Survey results

Huynh, Kim P.; Nicholls, Gradon; Nicholson, Mitchell W. - 2020

The role of cash in Canadians' lives has been evolving, as innovations in digital payments have become more widely adopted over the past decade. The emergence of privately issued digital currencies has motivated many central banks to conduct research into central bank digital currencies (CBDCs)....

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Fintech: is this time different? : a framework for assessing risks and opportunities for central banks

Aaron, Meyer; Rivadeneyra, Francisco; Sohal, Samantha - 2017

changing money demand and by changing the industrial organization of the financial system. We present a competitive strategy …

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