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SARB Deputy Governor Rashad Cassim: payments, digital assets and the future of finance

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… environment, broadened participation and allowed hands-on experimentation. It also surfaced important governance and legal questions related to DLT-enabled tokenisation and settlement that would need to be resolved before any policy decisions could be taken. The SARB's exploratory work on retail central bank digital currency is part of a broader effort to understand how public digital money might function in a modernised economy. Exploring a retail CBDC was a logical step in a world where private digital instruments, including stablecoins, are growing, putting more pressure on central banks to provide a safe, public digital money that supports payment innovation and preserve …
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  • “The SARB’s exploratory work on retail central bank digital currency is part of a broader effort to understand how public digital money might function in a modernised economy.”

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