Digital currencies have emerged as a hot research topic amid growing interest in digital currency issuance among central banks. We spoke with Robleh Ali, head of a digital fiat currency project at the MIT Media Lab's Digital Currency Initiative (DCI), about how to best design central bank digital currencies (CBDC) and how their issuance would affect the financial system.

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Interlocutor

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  Robleh Ali

  Research Scientist

  Digital Currency Initiative

  MIT Media Lab

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  Tetsuya Inoue

  Chief Researcher

  Financial Market & Innovation Research Department