The Bank of England has extended its central bank digital currency (CBDC) consultation deadline. It was due to end on June 7 but has been pushed back to June 30 because of the omission of a question about non residents and the digital pound.
This appears to have been a technical glitch. The original consultation paper published in February outlined the list of topics to be polled, which includes the non resident question.
The question is, “Do you have comments on our proposal that non-UK residents should have access to the digital pound, on the same basis as UK residents?”
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