Virtual: Thinking through Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC)
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Session No.: CE 22.08V
Location: Kuwait City, Kuwait
Date: February 1-3, 2022 (1 week)
Primary Language: English
Interpretation Language: Arabic
Target Audience
Mid- to senior-level officials working in the payment, legal, technology, monetary policy, and financial stability departments at the central bank and in positions with similar responsibilities.
Qualifications
Participants should have experience in the operations and/or oversight in one or more of the following areas: payments, legal, technology, monetary policy, and financial stability.
Course Description
This course, presented by the IMF's Monetary and Capital Markets Department, aims to provide a framework for balancing pros and cons of CBDC issuance and guiding design options. This course focuses on the high-level CBDC decision-making and project management process. The course is designed to be interactive by using a combination of lectures, case studies/simulations, and panel discussions. Lectures focus on the CBDC decision-making process that should be viewed as dynamic and iterative with multiple feedback loops to gradually evaluate the relevance of CBDC. The self-assessment exercises are based on systematic procedures and cover use cases, pain points, requirements, solution, feasibility, proof of concepts, and pilots. Participants, after gaining a basic understanding of the decision-making process, apply them to a hypothetical country to understand thoroughly the problem to be solved and the full array of solutions. After the hands-on self-assessment experience, results are discussed through group presentations and de-briefings. (Note: The course may be subject to further changes to accommodate remote delivery).
Course Objectives
Upon completion of this course, participants should be able to:
- Explain the economic rationale for the use of CBDCs compared to other payment instruments.
- Use the framework presented in the course to think about the design and implementation of CBDCs.
- Use the concepts introduced in the course to assess the benefits and costs of CBDCs.
- Identify threats to financial stability and various risks based on country case studies.
- Extract lessons from country pilots to try to prevent design pitfalls.
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