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Op-ed by Mr Benoît Cœuré, Chair of the Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures (CPMI), and Ms Jacqueline Loh, Chair of the Markets Committee, published in the Financial Times under the title "Bitcoin not the answer to a cashless society", 13 March 2018. Read the original on the Financial Times website here.

Central banks must carefully weigh the implications for financial stability and monetary policy of issuing digital currencies, according to a report from the Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures (CPMI) and the Markets Committee.

Sveriges Riksbank governor Stefan Ingves says lawmakers must act to preserve regulation of payments system

Digital instrument would not make current payment system more efficient, says report

Financial stability risk and reforms in the payment sphere holding back digital currency at present

Executive board will examine whether e-krona could be gateway to central bank money

Blockchain could offer better resilience for payment systems against cyber threats

Sweden’s central bank presents three cryptocurrency models as solution to payments conundrum

BIS economists examine the case of central banks issuing own digital currency

BoE economist says there are many technological requirements for successful digital currency

David Birch’s book discusses how communities could be at heart of new electronic monetary system

Fund finds large benefits to issuing own digital currency in terms of cost savings and efficiency gains

Sweden and Singapore unsure whether digital currencies will supersede cash in the near future

The current state of distributed ledger technology makes it too inefficient to run as a pure system, researchers say

Remarks by Mr Hiroshi Nakaso, Deputy Governor of the Bank of Japan, at the Forum Towards Making Effective Use of the BOJ-NET, Tokyo, 21 April 2017.