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"If appropriately designed, CBDC has the potential to improve payment systems and support a role for central bank money even as other digital payment solutions proliferate. But the appropriateness of CBDC will vary with country circumstances. Given the complexities and the novelty involved, policymakers need to explore CBDC carefully and
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The public sector should continue to prepare for CBDC deployment, IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said. Original Source
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During her opening speech at the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) seminar on financial inclusion in Marrakesh, Morocco, IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said digitalization is “the most important way” to scale up financial inclusion. “It is digital that moves help to people, investment and ability of the economy to accelerate,” Georgieva
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Ayman Alsayari, the governor of the Saudi Central Bank (SAMA), is encouraging the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to regulate cryptocurrency. “We need good supervision, regulation, and coordination of crypto currency activities,” Alsayari said at a recent event in Marrakech, Morocco, where the IMF Annual Meetings were held from Oct. 9-15. “In
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A report on Sep. 7 reveals that global regulators, including the International Monetary Fund (IMF), are working to reduce risks that cryptocurrencies may pose to economic and financial stability. In their evaluation, these regulators argue that many of the advantages of digital assets, such as cheaper and quicker cross-border payments, have
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The policy paper, commissioned by the intergovernmental forum G20 under India’s leadership, combines norms set by the Financial Stability Board (FSB), the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and other international standard-setters for the crypto sector in one report, which found “comprehensive regulatory and supervisory oversight of crypto-assets should be a baseline
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The FSB, a global standard setter, and the global economic agency IMF are presenting the paper at this weekend’s G20 Summit. The paper includes a roadmap on the implementation of policy frameworks for crypto including global coordination, cooperation and information sharing. Source
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At the same meeting, key U.S. Treasury official Jay Shambaugh said drafting global crypto rules wouldn't normalize the sector's disasters, much like how mandating seat belts didn't normalize car crashes. The roundtable, which was hosted by India as the current G20 president, was conducted under Chatham House rules and thus
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The Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) has completed its annual talks with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The country is expected to see gross domestic product (GDP) growth this year, the IMF concluded, in a recovery from the impact of COVID-19 and the contraction of its fishing industry. Climate
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Governments have yet to address all the ways crypto might be taxed, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has realized, and the amount of taxes not imposed or collected may reach well into the tens of billions of dollars. That insight does little to reduce the variety of challenges in taxing
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