The digital yuan has been used to make 360m transactions worth a total of more than 100bn yuan (US$14bn) since China began piloting the central bank digital currency (CBDC) in December 2019, up from total cumulative transaction values worth 87.6bn yuan (US$12bn) at the end of 2021, according to the People’s Bank of China (PBOC).
To date, the digital yuan has been used “mainly for domestic retail payments, but will be promoted for use in corporate and personal business, as well as in finance, taxation and government affairs”, according to a Reuters report.
A survey in June revealed that one in five consumers have now downloaded China’s digital currency app.
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Banking 4.0 – „how was the experience for you”
„So many people are coming here to Bucharest, people that I see and interact on linkedin and now I get the change to meet them in person. It was like being to the Football World Cup but this was the World Cup on linkedin in payments and open banking.”
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