But at this stage, I am unfortunately not in a position to predict whether, how and when we are going to adapt. 2 Discussion on general purpose CBDC Ladies and gentlemen, When Facebook announced its plan to build something like a global digital currency back in June 2019, it accelerated the global debate on the topic.
The idea was to set up a global payment infrastructure based on DLT, aiming, inter alia, at cheaper and faster cross-border payments as well as better financial inclusion. At that time, we had already undertaken quite some experiments and analyses on the use of DLT and on potential forms of CBDC.