When Will a G20 Central Bank Issue a Digital Currency? Central bank governors and finance ministers of many G20 countries have been working on their own central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), particularly in response to Facebook’s planned Libra coin. Mark Cliffe, chief economist and head of global research at ING Group, expects to see the first G20 central bank digital currency soon. In a blog post published Friday, he wrote: When might we see a fully-fledged digital currency from a G20 central bank? … they’ll be making moves towards just that in the next two to three years. Philip Middleton Last

Central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) are already set to become part of national financial systems. In part one of a two-part series, Bitt.com’s Simon Chantry describes how the design and configuration of these networks is trending and how this is likely to affect us in the future interconnected world. Simon Chantry is co-founder and Chief Business Development Officer at Bitt.com. He is a member of the OECD’s Blockchain Expert Policy Advisory Board (BEPAB) and the WEF’s Digital Currency Governance Consortium. Efforts to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 have impacted all industries, with the financial and payments industries being no exception.

Prominent members of the crypto community continue to express skepticism over the stock-to-flow, or S2F, chart, a Bitcoin (BTC) price prediction model recently revised by analyst PlanB. Nico Cordeiro, Chief Investment Officer (CIO) at crypto quant fund Strix Leviathan, called S2F a “chameleon,” a term from Stanford professor Paul Pleifderer describing models built upon dubious assumptions. “The model’s accuracy will likely be about as successful at forecasting Bitcoin’s future price as the astrological models of the past were at predicting financial outcomes,” Cordeiro said. Revisions to past models As reported on June 1 that PlanB had updated its signature chart, making it seem