Swiss Central Bank to Launch Real-World CBDC Pilot
The chairman of Swiss Central Bank,Thomas Jordan, has announced that the central bank is launching a wholesale CBDC on Switzerland's SIX digital exchange as part of a pilot. In a conference at Zurich on Monday, the Swiss...
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In a conference at Zurich on Monday, the Swiss central bank chair said that the project would begin soon, Reuters reported.
The wholesale CBDC pilot will run on the Swiss SIX digital exchange for a limited time, the bank chair said. ...
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