Central Bank Digital Currency

This book offers a deeper understanding of digitisation and innovative technologies in the financial sector. It focuses on a digital version of sovereignly created money that is accessible to the broad public. This central bank digital currency (CBDC) raises several questions. Will CBDC lead to public surveillance of the citizens? What is digital money in the legal sense? And what is the difference to already existing forms of digital money? This book addresses main questions associated with central bank digital currency by providing background information as well as in-depth analyses.

This book addresses the public and private sector participants as well as the legislators on how to handle CBDC. Most important, the book addresses everyone interested in digitisation and innovative financial technology who wants to gain a deeper understanding of the next big evolvement of money.

Part i: Understanding the notion of central bank digital currency. - Chapter 1: Terminology and motives for central bank digital currency. - Chapter 2: Technical design. - Part ii: Analysing the legal aspects of central bank digital currency. - Chapter 3: Monetary constitutional law. - Chapter 4: Roles of the parties involved. - Chapter 5: Status as legal tender. - Chapter 6: Aspects of fundamental rights. - Chapter 7: Private law. - Part iii: Analysing the economic aspects of central bank digital currency. - Chapter 8: Economic implications of central bank digital currency. - Chapter 9: Monetary policy. - Part iv: Conclusion. - Chapter 10: A milestone in the history of means of payment. - Appendix: Draft proposal for a regulation on the digital euro.