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Australia: The Reserve Bank’s Central Bank Digital Currency Trial

Australia: The Reserve Bank’s Central Bank Digital Currency Trial

By Daniel Knight and Kithmin Ranamukhaarachchi

Last week the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) released its report on the CBDC research project which it conducted with the Digital Finance Cooperative Research Centre (see here). The project entailed the trial of relevant use cases in a live transactional environment, making use of CBDC issued by the RBA that carries a real legal claim on the RBA. The trial, which took place between March and July this year, set out to understand the value of a CBDC to the Australia economy and payments systems.

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