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UK central bank digital currency plans progress as taskforce announced

By Fiona Maxwell
  • 19 Apr 2021 05:48
  • 19 Apr 2021 05:48
Work on a UK-issued central bank digital currency looks set to progress, after a taskforce to explore the potential creation of the state-issued e-money was announced by finance minister Rishi Sunak today.
The Bank of England and the UK Treasury said the joint central bank digital currency taskforce would look

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Fiona Maxwell

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Fiona Maxwell is a financial services senior correspondent at MLex in London. She began her career as a reporter for Risk.net, writing about EU post-crisis regulation, and later worked for POLITICO in Brussels, covering the intersect between financial policy and politics. Prior to joining MLex, Fiona worked at the Bank of England as a policy adviser in the prudential policy directorate.

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