A Staff Working Paper published by Canada's central bank last week concluded that a central bank digital currency (CBDC) could address the …
Digital Cash
What we learned from Mark Carney’s Future Forum Q&A
In a welcome bid to increase its transparency, the Bank of England has been hosting online Q&As with some of its most senior staff over …
The Future of Money Conference in Frankfurt
On November 24th, Positive Money had the pleasure to attend The Future of Money conference that took place at the Frankfurt School …
Interim report from the Access to Cash review: Positive Money response
Responding to an interim report released on Wednesday from the Access to Cash review which warned about the dangers of the UK "sleepwalking" …
Another top economist supports our Digital Cash proposal
As we explored last week, our proposal for Digital Cash in the form of a central bank digital currency (CBDC) is rapidly gaining the …
Could a central bank digital currency halt the privatisation of our money?
Over the past few days top policymakers from the IMF, ECB and Bank of England have addressed the prospect of a central bank digital …
One step closer to Digital Cash
We just moved one step closer to seeing Europe’s first general-use central bank digital currency, which could be implemented as soon as …
10 Years On: why has so little changed since the financial crash?
As the tenth anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers approaches, the Financial Times’ chief economics commentator, Martin Wolf, …
Positive Money’s digital cash proposals find support in new Bank of England research
On Friday the Bank of England published new research concluding that a central bank digital currency (CBDC) would be compatible with, or …