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Rwanda Central Bank Joins CBDC Bandwagon After Announcing Digital Currency Research

by CBDC Insider
June 22, 2021
in Africa, Business
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Rwanda Central Bank Joins CBDC Bandwagon After Announcing Digital Currency Research
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The National Bank of Rwanda (NBR) has become the latest African central bank to join the digital currency movement after an employee confirmed the institution is studying the possibilities of issuing its own digital currency.

CBDC Implications on Financial Stability

According to the employee, John Karamuka, this study will be looking at economic, financial, and technical aspects related to central bank digital currencies (CBDC), as well as “the operationalization model.” The study will also analyze the “implication of the CBDC on monetary policy and financial stability.”

However, in his remarks to The New Times, Karamuka revealed that the study had exposed the limits or lack of global standards and reliable benchmarks on the subject. On the African continent, a few countries, namely Nigeria, Ghana, and Tanzania recently either signalled plans to explore or have made progress on developing CBDCs. Still, only a few countries globally, including small nations like the Bahamas and The Republic of the Marshall Islands, have seen their CBDC projects make real progress.

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Meanwhile, Karamuka, who is the director of payment systems at the NBR, explains how his organization has attempted to benchmark its own progress. He said:

Nevertheless, we are benchmarking on countries that are at more advanced stages, learning both positive and negative experiences. We are basing on work done by international institutions such as the International Monetary Fund, World Bank, World Economic Forum among others.

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