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Thai Central Bank Taps Cement Company for First Digital Currency Payments
The Bank of Thailand is integrating a CBDC payments system into the financials of the country’s oldest cement company in an extension of its Inthanon project.
Updated Sep 14, 2021, 8:54 a.m. Published Jun 20, 2020, 4:30 p.m.
The Bank of Thailand is developing a prototype payments system that would rely on a central bank digital currency (CBDC).
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The central bank announced Thursday it would target businesses and would design a payment system that could be integrated with the procurement and financial management system of Siam Cement Group, Thailand’s oldest cement manufacturer, and its suppliers.
The bank said the digital currency prototype is being developed by Digital Ventures, a fintech-facing venture capital wing of the Siam Commercial Bank that invested in Ripple in 2016.
According to the statement, the project will also include a feasibility study on the payments system. The CBDC project will begin next month and is expected to conclude by the end of the year.
“The project marks an important step in broadening CBDC’s scope and adoption to wider audiences, starting with large corporates,” said the press release published on the Bank of Thailand’s website.
The Bank of Thailand said it expects the CBDC prototype to build on the knowledge put together under Project Inthanon. Inthanon was launched in 2018, and is a collaborative project involving the Bank of Thailand and eight leading Thai financial institutions to bolster technological readiness in Thailand’s financial sector.
Bank of Thailand’s prototype comes at a time when central banks around the world have been toying with the idea of CBDCs. A recent job posting on the Bank of Canada’s website revealed the Canadian central bank’s plan to develop a CBDC, and a report from April showed that one of China’s major state-owned banks is conducting trials on a test interface developed for the country's CBDC.
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