Digital Banking

Central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) have rapidly gained attention in recent months among central banks worldwide in the last few months, with 18 nations reported to have launched or piloted a retail CBDC by mid-January this year and many more publishing papers for discussion.
CBDCs are intended to be fiat currency – that is, a direct liability of the central bank – and this characteristics raises a range of issues. What are these, in particular, in the jurisdictions of Singapore, Hong Kong, China and India?

From 4 to 9 November 2019, the FinTech Week will take place in Hamburg - Germany's largest FinTech event with over 1,500 visitors from the financial sector. Also Osborne Clarke will be represented there with a speech.

Vom 4. – 9. November 2019 findet in Hamburg die FinTech Week statt – Deutschlands größte FinTech-Veranstaltung mit über 1.500 Besuchern aus der Finanzbranche. Auch Osborne Clarke wird dort vertreten sein.