Bank of England has no tech skills to issue CBDC yet: Deputy governor
BoE deputy governor Jon Cunliffe compared a potential digital pound with Apple’s iPhone app store as it could “open a new frontier for people to improve payments.”
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BoE deputy governor Jon Cunliffe compared a potential digital pound with Apple’s iPhone app store as it could “open a new frontier for people to improve payments.”
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