Carney warns CBDC delays play into hands of big tech

Delays risk entrenching the power of tech firms, former BoE governor says

Mark Carney
Mark Carney
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Mark Carney called on central banks today (June 28) to embrace digital forms of public money, or risk allowing tech firms to dominate a “new world” of money.

The former Bank of England governor said the world was heading for a new monetary system, potentially with a greater role for distributed forms of finance. But he cautioned that past episodes in which multiple forms of private money fought for supremacy led to inefficiency and instability.

The new monetary system, Carney said in the

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