RBI’s digital currency platform may help enforce black money regulations

FM Nirmala Sitharaman announced in her budget speech in February that the RBI would come up with a CBDC during the current fiscal

PGurus Newsdesk

October 16, 2022

FM Nirmala Sitharaman announced in her budget speech in February that the RBI would come up with a CBDC during the current fiscal

RBI to take a graded approach on CBDC, in line with monetary policy

The proposed Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) platform is expected to generate huge sets of data in real-time which could also be useful for enforcing money laundering regulations, a concept note prepared by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has said.

“After factoring in the concerns related to anonymity, appropriate analytics of Big Data generated from CBDC can assist in evidence-based policymaking. It may also become a rich data source for service providers for financial product insights,” the note said.

Further, the data would be highly useful for enforcing money laundering regulations. It may also generate intelligent leads that may assist in curbing non-compliance with existing rules and regulations, thus assisting in a risk-based approach to curb money laundering by identifying potential risks and assisting in developing strategies to mitigate them, it said further.

The RBI note, therefore, underlined that it is important that while crystallizing the design choices in the initial stages, the technical choices should not be frozen.

“As technology evolves, the policy related, and security-related considerations shall also change. Therefore, it is necessary to have an open-ended flexible approach while zeroing in on the technical choices,” the note said.

“It is also necessary that while engaging any technology service provider, there should not be a vendor lock-in and in case any proprietary systems are being used, there should be enabling clauses to allow complete ownership by the Central Bank,” the note said.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced in her budget speech in February that the RBI would come up with a CBDC during the current fiscal.

[With Inputs from IANS]

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