IMF Estimated : CBDCs Will Face Pressure In Digitizing Financial Systems

IMF estimated that central bank digital currencies will have a hard time in the fast-evolving and digitizing financial systems, so let’s read more in our latest crypto news.

In the new blog post, the IMF said that the digital currencies are popping up and the financial sector is evolving fast, with the public and private economic sectors clashing and putting pressure on the CBDCs in order for them to innovate and keep up with the tech powerhouses. The IMF Estimated:

 “Today’s, or even tomorrow’s, money is unlikely to meet the needs of the day after… Keeping with the pace of change of technology, user needs, and private-sector competition will be challenging for central banks…

Central banks would thus have to become more like Apple or Microsoft in order to keep central bank digital currencies on the frontier of technology and in the wallets of users as the predominant and preferred form of digital money…”

The central banks will depend on their ability and willingness to innovate all of the time but keeping up with the pace and evolving the user’s needs is not an easy job. The IMF believes that the best way for central banks to compete with the evolution of digital currencies is to create a system where the private sector will be able to convert the assets into a central bank currency:

 “The answer lies in a fundamental symbiotic relationship: the option to redeem private money into perfectly safe and liquid public money, be it notes and coins, or central bank reserves held by selected banks…”

The option of redemption into a CBDC is much needed for stability, innovation, and diversity as the EMF said so a system with just private money will be far too risky. One with just a central bank currency will miss out on the important innovations so each form of money will be built on others and will deliver on the dual money system as a balanced method that served well so far. The IMF asserted that a dual monetary system between the public and the private sector will work well even as central banks issue digital currencies:

 “If and when countries move ahead with central bank digital currencies, they should consider how to leverage the private sector. Today’s dual-monetary system can be extended to the digital age. Central bank currency – along with regulation, supervision, and oversight – will continue to be essential to anchor stability and efficiency of the payment system.”