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China is stepping up the next phase of its digital yuan push. Twelve new banks have joined the e-CNY network, more than doubling <\/a>participation<\/a> from ten to twenty-two<\/a>. The expansion brings in a wider mix of joint-stock and regional lenders and means most of the country\u2019s financial heavyweights are now in the room: nineteen of China\u2019s twenty-one systemically important banks are now on board.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The digital yuan (or e-CNY) is China\u2019s way of upgrading money for the platform age.<\/a> It gives the People’s Bank of China more control, cuts Big Tech down to size and turns cash into something smarter<\/strong> \u2013 programmable, trackable and policy-ready, with half an eye on reshaping finance at home and abroad.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There\u2019s a big structural shift in amongst this news too. The digital yuan is no longer just a payments tool running alongside the system. It can now sit on bank balance sheets and count as interest-bearing deposits. You can read that as the digital RMB starting to behave like actual money. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Having it run like actual cash changes incentives. <\/strong>Before, the e-CNY functioned more or less like a parallel payment tool. It was useful, but not something banks were motivated to promote. By tying it into the nitty gritty of banking economics, regulators have equated adoption with profit. And so now banks can earn from using it.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If the banks can profit, they will push. The numbers already suggest momentum. In China, the digital yuan had processed 3.5 billion transactions worth 16.7 trillion RMB<\/a> (around $2.4 trillion). Some 230 million individual wallets have been opened, alongside nearly 19 million corporate accounts.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s safe to say we\u2019re moving into a new era for the e-CNY. You could think of the first post-pilot stage. What began life in research papers in 2014 and went to pilot in 2020 has now hit an undeniable rollout stage. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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