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In this episode of the Digital Euro Podcast, Sarah Palurovic (Executive Director of the DEA) takes a look at the perspectives of crypto and CBDC proponents. The debate which is shaped by polarizing voices on social media, especially Twitter, seems to have fundamentally irreconcilable perspectives. Which points of critique and philosophies are brought forth by these two camps who holds up to a reality check? Is there any common ground for crypto and CBDC proponents?

The recent Ukraine-Russia war has raised multiple significant questions about the use of digital money. First, with the bank-run on Russian banks following the sanctions, would public and private forms of digital money offer potential ways to deal with bank-runs? After Western nations imposed new sanctions on Russia for its invasion of Ukraine, the Russian ruble was down nearly 30% against the US dollar at one point. Soon after, Russians queued to withdraw money in some cities, worried about cash shortages, despite the Russian Central Bank calling for calm. With the bank-run on Russian banks following the sanctions, public and...

In this episode of the DEA Podcast, Sarah Palurovic interviews Glenn Kim, the managing director of strategic business development at Fluency with vast experience in government and central bank financial advisor, investment banking, and entrepreneurship in tech and financial services. They discuss which tasks, tools and processes could be outsourced to the public sector companies by a Central Bank when CBDCs are introduced. Glenn explains how such products and services will be introduced concurrent with the introduction of a CBDC and how factors such as user-experience, data protection (i.e., GDPR requirements) and anonymity are addressed in such an outsourcing business...

In this episode, Valentin Seehausen talks with Jannah Patchay about the fungibility and interoperability of CBDC.

Jannah works for the Digital Pound Foundation and is specialized in financial markets innovation, and in helping firms to define, develop and execute their commercial strategies in a highly regulated environment. Her passion lies in building the capital markets of the future, harnessing emerging technology to create new and innovative financial services and products that can promote wider social benefit and greater access to financial services.

In this episode, Valentin Seehausen talks with Franklin Noll about Stablecoins, Synthetic CBDC, and the general history of cryptocurrencies. Noll Historical Consulting assists clients in succeeding in the cryptocurrency, monetary, and payments fields by providing inside knowledge of those worlds and by providing the expertise needed to develop and promote successful projects.

Focusing on the technology of money, past, present, and future, Noll Historical Consulting helps those working with banknotes, stablecoins, Central Bank Digital Currencies, and more. Just some of the services available are shown below.

Central banks around the world have stepped in and intensified their efforts to conceptualize and design their own digital currencies, i.e., central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), in particular, as a reaction to the increased competitive dynamics by the cryptocurrencies and stablecoins. Asia has a particular importance and critical leading efforts in this space with various Asian central banks assessing and experimenting with CBDCs. For instance, China has launched pilot programs and trials of its digital currency project e-CNY. Goals of the e-CNY include to provide a convenient, yet more efficient, resilient and secure retail payment system to increase financial inclusion...

In this episode of the DEA Podcast, Manuel Klein interviews Miguel Fernandez Ordoñez, the former president of the Spanish central bank. They discuss why Miguel believes that we need new forms of money, and what these new forms of money bring with them economically. Miguel also explains, which role he foresees for the state, central banks, commercial banks, and other non-banking institutions, e.g. Stablecoin-providers in this new world, in which CBDC plays a larger role.

Be sure to tune in to learn arguments for a system, in which CBDC or 100% backed Stablecoins become the dominant form of money in...

In this episode of the Digital Euro Podcast, DEA Executive Director Conrad Kraft sits down with Dr. Cyrus de la Rubia to discuss the role of commercial banks amidst CBDC implementation. They run through the current roles of commercial banks and how these may be impacted by the introduction of various types of CBDCs.

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In this podcast episode of the Digital Euro Podcast, James Wallis, VP for Central Bank Engagements and Antony Welfare, European CBDC lead at Ripple, talk to Manuel Klein, founding member of the DEA about Ripple's engagement in CBDCs.

James and Antony give an overview of what Ripple does and what the underlying blockchain technology, the XRP Ledger (XRPL), is used for. They describe how Ripple partnered with the Central Bank of Bhutan to build a pilot for their CBDC and what role the XRPL could play in a future of multiple CBDCs running on different technologies. James and Antony also...

Bitcoin rose from the ashes of the global financial crisis of 2007-08 as the first cryptocurrency to attract global attention. With the rise of peer-to-peer electronic cash systems that do not rely on intermediaries, there are more than 7,500 cryptocurrencies in circulation now, according to Statista. Some first businesses accept major cryptocurrencies as payment today. All these developments lead to the questions such as, whether cryptocurrencies are actually money, and whether they are good investment or store of value tools with their high volatility issue.

The cost of low stability in cryptocurrency values increased the importance of (fiat-backed) stablecoins, which...