Trends developing in retail CBDC

Simon Chantry, Bitt’s co-founder and chief information officer, and its new economist Jim Shinn, a former US government official and member of the Criteo central bank digital currency team that was one of the three winners of the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s global CBDC challenge in 2021, join DMI editor Lewis McLellan. They discuss Bitt’s experience in deploying CBDC protocols, key themes emerging in retail CBDC development and the geopolitical pressures underpinning them.