Facebook spurred central banks to study digital currencies: former Japan central banker

Facebook spurred central banks to study digital currencies: former Japan central banker

January 22, 2020 13:07 pm

TOKYO, Jan 22: The challenge posed by Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency likely prodded major central banks to set up a new group to study the potential for issuing their own digital currencies, a former Bank of Japan executive said on Wednesday.

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