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Brainard: Digital Currencies, Stablecoins, and the Evolving Payments Landscape
Technology is driving rapid change in the way we make payments and in the concept of "money."1 There is a long history of technological advances challenging the prevailing notions of money, from the trading of coins to the use of paper currency, to the electronic debiting and crediting of funds on the accounts of banks. Today, efforts by global stablecoin networks such as Facebook's Libra to establish the next chapter in the story of money are raising threshold questions about legal and regulatory safeguards, financial stability, and monetary policy. Because of its potential global reach, Facebook's Libra imparts ... (full story)