The Bank of Japan has no specific plan at present to issue digital currencies as a substitute for banknotes. Nonetheless, the Bank will make utmost efforts to deeply understand new technologies including blockchain and DLT. The Bank will also continue to conduct various research and analyses of these new technologies, while seeking the possibility of improving its own infrastructure through applying them in future.
Mark Carney: Looking back, moving forward – Canada and global financial reform Remarks by Mr Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of Canada, at the International Center for Monetary and Banking Studies, Geneva, 9 November 2010. *  *  *  Introduction There is an old saying, “Knowledge is gained from experience, and experience is gained from mistakes”.