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Going Cashless With CBDC: Do Not Pine or Weep for Cash

February 23, 2025 by Rich Turrin

It’s always a pleasure to talk with my dear friend Paolo Sironi! In this episode of Paolo’s Bankers’ Bookshelf, we discuss how CBDCs are poised to change our world. To keep it relevant for bankers, we examine the opportunities and threats CBDCs pose to banks and the profound societal changes they could bring. Now, to …

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Digital Pound and why CBDC Programmability is Misunderstood

August 23, 2023 by Rich Turrin

Programmability is a hotly contested feature of central bank digital currencies! The ECB opting not to include it in the digital euro while the Bank of England wants it for the digital pound. I think the BoE gets it right!

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Cashless Newsletter

Writing about Asia’s FinTech revolution from Shanghai, 16 years and counting.

Every week, 60,000+ executives, investors and policymakers read Cashless to understand what Asia’s technology revolution means for Western markets. Not theory. Not hype. Real insight from someone living it.

If you want to know where Western finance and technology are heading, the answers are already visible in China and Asia today. Cashless connects the dots from the geopolitics of digital currency and the stablecoin versus CBDC battle for monetary sovereignty, to AI adoption, FinTech innovation and the trends that Western analysts won’t see coming until they’re already here.

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RICH TURRIN

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