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Japan’s Central Bank has begun its first testing stage involving the use of Central Bank-based Digital Currencies(CBDC), experimenting with functions like distribution and issuance. The first phase will take about one year, primed to end around the third month of…

In a report issued on April 3, 2020, the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) opined that it could soon ramp up its operations to make way for central bank digital currencies (CBDC) and digital payments amid the COVID-19 pandemic. COVID-19…