Merchants prepare to use digital yuan


Big potential: A visitor walking past by a e-CNY logo at a trade fair in Beijing. China’s e-CNY system has the potential to expand to larger-value transactions over the next five to 10 years. — AP

BEIJING: Chinese merchants are already preparing for the cross-border usage of digital yuan, or e-CNY, at a time when some major central banks in the world have not yet decided to develop their own digital currencies.

Some terminal device manufacturers, eying the cross-border payment function of e-CNY, have cooperated with large commercial banks and applied to the central bank for business licenses of exchanging digital yuan for foreign currencies and for retail use, said an executive of a manufacturer who declined to be named.

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