China set to develop its own digital currency

China set to develop its own digital currency

REUTERS/Petar Kujundzic

China’s central bank wants to launch its own digital currencies to cut the costs of circulating traditional paper money and boost policymakers’ control of money supply, the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) said on Wednesday.

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