Japan’s largest bank developing new digital currency
And the CityUnited project has urged Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak to be bold and think big as they look a future in which e-commerce will increasingly take centre-stage – emphasising the potential for the UK to get a massive head-start on the European Union. China is already pushing ahead with its own plan to launch its Central Bank Digital Currency’ by the time of next year’s Beijing Winter Olympics – and last month Mr Sunak announced the creation of a task force aimed at exploring the possibility of Britain launching what he termed “Britcoin”.