## Central Bank Digital Currency - Initial Considerations (CBDC)

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## Bibliographic details
- Session: CE 25.01
- Location: Kuwait City, Kuwait
- Dates: January 5-9, 2025 (1 week)
- Delivery method: In-person Training
- Primary language: English
- Interpretation language: Arabic
- Status: Deadline passed

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### Program overview
- Event: Central Bank Digital Currency - Initial Considerations (CBDC).
- Session No.: CE 25.01.
- Location: Kuwait City, Kuwait.
- Date: January 5-9, 2025 (1 week).
- Delivery Method: In-person Training.
- Primary Language: English.
- Interpretation Language: Arabic.
- Presented by: Monetary and Capital Markets Department (MCM).

### Target audience and qualifications
- Target Audience:
  - Mid- to senior-level officials working in the payment, legal, technology/innovation, monetary policy, and financial stability departments at the central bank or in positions with similar responsibilities.
- Qualifications:
  - Participants should have experience in the operations, policymaking, and/or oversight in one or more of the following areas: payments, legal, technology/innovation, monetary policy, and financial stability.

### Course description and content themes
- Delivery format:
  - Interactive format combining lectures, case study simulations, and group or individual presentations.
- Core lecture themes:
  - Initial considerations for CBDC including its positioning with other payment systems.
  - Project management for CBDC research and development.
  - Cybersecurity risks.
  - Macro-financial implications such as monetary policy transmission, monetary operations, and financial stability.
  - Factors influencing CBDC adoption.
  - Data use/privacy protection.
  - Cross-border arrangements for CBDC.
- Foundations and references:
  - The course will draw from insights from the IMF's CBDC virtual Handbook chapters, an online resource for policymakers and experts in central banks and ministries of finance, serving as the foundation for the IMF's engagements with country authorities and stakeholders.

### Course objectives
- Upon completion of the course, participants should be able to:
  - Gain insight into global CBDC developments and how CBDC compares with other payment systems.
  - Learn about project management and R&D best practices for CBDC initiatives and emphasize dynamic decision-making frameworks.
  - Understand cybersecurity risks, macro-financial implications, adoption factors, data use/privacy protection, and cross-border arrangements for CBDC use.

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## References

- [In-person Training](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/delivery-methods)
- [Core Elements of Banking Supervision (CBS)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/at/2027/cbsat27-10)
- [Advanced Government Finance Statistics (GFS-A)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ce/2026/gfs-ace26-45)
- [Fiscal Sustainability (FS)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ce/2026/fsce26-38)
- [Safeguards Assessments of Central Banks (SAC)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/at/2026/sacat26-30)
- [Macroeconomic Management in Resource Rich Countries (MRC)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ce/2026/mrcce26-44)

_Source: https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ce/2025/cbdcce25-01_