Be a step ahead
Which offers the greater opportunity – stablecoins or CBDCs?
Both stablecoins and CBDCs help to address cross-border payment challenges, by speeding up transactions and reducing the number of parties involved. Discover the key differences between the two.
Why CBDCs aren’t a silver bullet – yet
CBDCs are already widely used in some parts of the world. Although they can improve cross-border payments, find out why CBDCs can’t yet solve all the current pain points.
Seeking out benefits for today
Full interoperability between CBDCs is some time away. Learn how traditional payment and cash on-chain solutions are being used alongside each other to create faster and more effective payment processes in the meantime.
Explore the future of payments
Learn how traditional banks can harness new payment solutions in the face of disruption from emerging forms of digital currency.
Digital currencies in numbers
140m
Number of people who have opened wallets using China’s digital yuan
$9.5bn
Total value of transactions so far that have used the digital yuan
86%
of the world’s central banks were engaged in some form of work on CBDCs in Jan 2021
„At some point, the majority of cross-border payments will be completed in digital currencies. But … there’s a gap at this point in time in terms of knowledge, platforms and skills, and in terms of how to convert and swap digital currencies when you are creating cross- border payments.“
