🔥 The Society for Global Interbank Financial Telecommunications (SWIFT) said that it plans to create a new platform within the next year or two to link the digital currencies that central banks are issuing to the current financial system.

🔥 This will be one of the most important steps yet for the emerging CBDC ecosystem given SWIFT's key role in global banking.

🔥 About 90% of the world's central banks are now looking into issuing digital versions of their currencies. Most of them do not want to lag behind Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, but they face technological difficulties