Banque de France names CBDC partners
HSBC and Euroclear among firms chosen to take part in CBDC experiments
The Banque de France will partner with a number of banks and technology firms over the coming months as it experiments with central bank digital currency (CBDC).
Eight institutions, including Accenture, HSBC and Euroclear, were chosen by the central bank to participate in CBDC projects, which will feed into the European Central Bank’s research.
In a statement, the French central bank said projects would include testing settlement in CBDC in order to improve executing conditions for cross
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