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RBI to launch digital rupee pilot project today
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IANS | 01 Nov, 2022
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will today launch the nation's first
digital rupee pilot project for the wholesale segment.
In
a statement, the central bank said that it will "soon commence pilot
launches of Digital Rupee (ea,) for specific use cases. Accordingly, the
first pilot in the Digital Rupee - Wholesale segment (ea,-W) shall
commence on November 1, 2022".
The central bank further informed
that "the first pilot in Digital Rupee - Retail segment (ea,-R) is
planned for launch within a month in select locations in closed user
groups comprising customers and merchants. The details regarding
operationalisation of ea,-R pilot shall be communicated in due course".
RBI has selected nine banks for participation in the digital rupee's wholesale pilot project.
These
are State Bank of India, Bank of Baroda, Union Bank of India, HDFC
Bank, ICICI Bank, Kotak Mahindra Bank, Yes Bank, IDFC First Bank and
HSBC.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in her budget speech on
February 1 had announced that RBI will launch a Central Bank Digital
Currency (CBDC) in this fiscal.
CBDC is a digital form of currency notes issued by a central bank.
Digital currency or rupee is an electronic form of money, that can be used in contactless transactions.
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