Economic Affairs Committee
Central bank digital currencies: a solution in search of a problem?
3rd Report of Session 2021-22 - published 17 January 2022 - HL Paper 131
Contents
Box 1: Central bank money and commercial bank money
What problems would a CBDC solve?
Chapter 2: Households and businesses
Figure 1: Payment volumes (millions) 2010 to 2020
Chapter 3: CBDC and the monetary system
Risk of private money creation
Figure 2: Total stablecoin supply (Tether, USD Coin, Binance USD, Dai, TrueUSD)
Privacy and ‘Know Your Customer’
Chapter 4: International implications
Summary of conclusions and recommendations
Appendix 1: List of Members and declarations of interest
Evidence is published online at https://committees.parliament.uk/work/1504/central-bank-digital-currencies/publications/ and available for inspection at the Parliamentary Archives (020 7219 3074).
Q in footnotes refers to a question in oral evidence.