SMU Libraries Curate - Decoding Central Bank Digital Currencies: The Future of Money Explained

In a world rapidly embracing digital innovation, the concept of money and its manifestation is undergoing a revolutionary transformation. A Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) is a digital currency issued by a central bank, leveraging blockchain technology. In this year’s last instalment of SMU Libraries Curate, we're excited to dive you into the fascinating world of CBDCs and its latest developments.

Videos & Podcasts

• CBDCs: Keeping momentum in uncertain times

• Dong He on Central Bank Digital Currencies

• How CBDCs work

• IMF launches virtual guide on Central Bank Digital Currencies

• Project Mariana: Cross-border exchange of wholesale CBDCs using automated market-makers

• Project Sela: An accessible and secure retail CBDC ecosystem

• Project Tourbillon explores anonymity for digital payments

• The Digital Euro - Easy, safe, fast, reliable

• The digital finance voyage: A case for public sector involvement

Articles

• Central Bank Digital Currency development enters the next phase

• Currency substitution in a world of looming retail CBDCs: Suggestive currency substitution-based evidence

• e-HKD Pilot Programme Phase 1 Report

• HKMA signs MoUs with five local universities to foster collaboration on CBDC research

• How to understand China's approach to Central Bank Digital Currency?
  *Heng, WANG

• Project mBridge update: Experimenting with a multi-CBDC platform for cross-border payments

• Security considerations for a Central Bank Digital Currency

• Singapore banks make headway on programmable digital money trials

• Study shows 130 countries exploring central bank digital currencies

• The future of the international financial system: The emerging CBDC network and its impact on regulation
  *Heng, WANG

• Using Central Bank Digital Currencies across borders: Lessons from practical experiments

• Using Central Bank Digital Currency to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals

• What is Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC)?

*SMU author / publication

Books

Central Bank Digital Currencies and the global financial system: Theory and practice / Muhammad Ashfaq, Rashedul Hasan & Jošt Merčon

e-Book

Central Bank Digital Currencies: The future of money / Michael Lloyd

e-Book

Central Bank Digital Currency: A technical, legal and economic analysis / Leo Kriese

e-Book

Digital currencies and the new global financial system / Ranjan Aneja & Robert Dygas (Ed)

e-Book

Digital finance: How innovation reshapes the capital markets / Zhiyi Liu & Wenxuan Hou

e-Book

IMF's Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) Virtual Handbook / International Monetary Fund

e-Book

Sustainability, Public Security, and Privacy Concerns Regarding Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) / Robert Rybski

e-Book

The Digitalization of cross-border payment systems and the introduction of the CBDC / René W.H. van der Linden & Piotr Łasak

e-Book

The monetary turning point: From bank money to Central Bank Digital Currency / Joseph Huber

e-Book

Unbacked crypto-assets, stablecoins and CBDC / Ulrich Bindseil & George Pantelopoulos

e-Book

Other Resources

• Atlantic Council CBDC Tracker

• CBDC Tracker

This selection of resources is curated by Tee Lip Hwe, Research Librarian, Accountancy & Business (Finance).