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Jamaica digital currency due for national roll-out in coming months - central bank

Jamaica digital currency due for national roll-out in coming months - central bank

Jamaica will roll out its digital currency across the country in the first quarter of this year as part of an effort to lower transaction costs and provide financial services to citizens who do not use banks, a central bank official told Reuters.
The Bank of Jamaica said in December that it completed a pilot project that issued 230 million Jamaican dollars (US$1.5 million) of the new currency, an effort that comes on the heels of a similar project launched by a group of Eastern Caribbean nations.

"The majority of Jamaicans are financially excluded," Natalie Haynes, a deputy governor with Bank of Jamaica for banking and currency operations and financial markets infrastructure, told Reuters in an interview late last week.

"To get those persons into the formal financial system, we decided that the central bank digital currency would be a good opportunity."

Haynes said the bank hopes to replace 5% of Jamaican dollars with the new digital currency each year.

Five million Jamaican dollars ($38,000) was issued to Jamaica's National Commercial Bank, a private financial institution, and JMD $1 million ($6,000) to Bank of Jamaica employees.

NCB signed up 57 customers to use the new currency, the Bank of Jamaica said.

"It's a different way to pay and allows for easy peer-to-peer transactions," said John-Matthew Sinclair, chief product officer for TFOB (2021), an NCB subsidiary.

Customers sign up for a digital wallet, where they can deposit funds in exchange for digital currency that can then be used in transactions.

Jamaica's digital currency follows a similar program by a group of Eastern Caribbean nations launched last year called DCash.

Antigua and Barbuda, Grenada, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia and Saint Vincent are now using DCash. In 2020, Bahamas was the first country in the region to issue digital currency.

($1 = 155.8900 Jamaican dollars)
Comments

Oh ya 3 year ago
Yup sign up for that and you will soon see who really controls your life. You will do as the government says or you will find out you can not access your money. Unbelievable how stupid people are. A good example is 2 weeks to flatten the curve to what we have now 3 or 4 shots, electronic passports, lockdowns and endless lies

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