A Primer On the Geopolitical Battle Over Money and Payment Infrastructures: Can the Dollar be Dethroned?

by Martijn Jeroen van der Linden and Brunello Rosa

In this fourth paper of the series of PRIMERS in the Fin-Tech and Digital Assets, we discuss: 

Hierarchies of money and currencies, including: 

• The domestic hierarchy of money;
• The international hierarchy of currencies; and
• The hierarchy of Central Banks; 

The potential of CBDCs and new payment infrastructure, including:

• China’s initiative in the digital currency race;
• The U.S private-sector approach; and
• Europe’s half-hearted attempt.

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