{"id":67752,"date":"2024-04-30T13:07:43","date_gmt":"2024-04-30T18:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=67752"},"modified":"2024-04-30T13:07:43","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T18:07:43","slug":"wef-report-supports-cbdc-and-digital-id-urges-public-private-collaboration-in-finance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=67752","title":{"rendered":"WEF Report Supports CBDC and Digital ID, Urges Public-Private Collaboration in Finance"},"content":{"rendered":"
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WEF Report Supports CBDC and Digital ID, Urges Public-Private Collaboration in Finance<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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WEF’s ambiguous stance on digital currencies raises eyebrows, suggesting a veiled push for CBDCs under the guise of collaboration.<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n
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The World Economic Forum (WEF) is clearly championing the introduction not only of (retail) central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) for the general public but also the wholesale version, wCBDC, geared toward interbank payments and securities transactions.<\/p>\n

It is not uncommon to come across leading financial institutions and banks linking to WEF reports while explaining and promoting their own activities in this space.<\/p>\n

And yet,\u00a0a new WEF report<\/a>\u00a0(a collaborative effort with Accenture) titled, \u201cModernizing Financial Markets with Wholesale Central Bank Digital Currency (wCBDC),\u201d states that the group does not actually explicitly \u201cadvocate\u201d for issuance of wCBDCs.<\/p>\n

(Nonetheless, the same report, \u201ca critical analysis,\u201d at one point in fact states that it \u201cadvocates for collaboration among central banks, commercial banks and financial market infrastructures to use wCBDC to address interbank payment and securities transaction challenges.\u201d)<\/p>\n

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The WEF, an informal group gathering global elites, seems aware that CDBCs, in general, are a controversial proposition, and may be trying to control the optics regarding the depth of its involvement, since it doesn\u2019t necessarily help elected national governments if WEF is seen as the main driving force behind the schemes.<\/p>\n

However, the WEF also obviously again trying to position itself at the center of incoming policies: \u201cThis report offers timely insights for public and private sector leaders evaluating the potential role of wCBDC in their jurisdictions,\u201d it reads.<\/p>\n

Either way, WEF has for a while now evidently been taking the lead in crafting a template of sorts for policies that will allow mass adoption of (w) CBDCs around the world.<\/p>\n

…click on the above link to read the rest of the article…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WEF Report Supports CBDC and Digital ID, Urges Public-Private Collaboration in Finance WEF’s ambiguous stance on digital currencies raises eyebrows, suggesting a veiled push for CBDCs under the guise of collaboration. The World Economic Forum (WEF) is clearly championing the introduction not only of (retail) central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) for the general public but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[28642,28643,29823,34437,33878,14742,889],"class_list":["post-67752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-liberty","tag-cbdc","tag-central-bank-digital-currency","tag-digital-id","tag-digital-identification","tag-reclaim-the-net","tag-wef","tag-world-economic-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67752"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67753,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67752\/revisions\/67753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}