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The Bank of Thailand will this month launch a retail central bank digital currency (CBDC) pilot project in a regulatory sandbox. According to local media, three payment providers will participate. The project will involve 10,000 users and will run until August.
Bank of Ayodhya (Krungasree), Siam Commercial Bank and Singapore-based payment service provider will partner with the Thai Central Bank on the 2C2P project. Each of those organizations has made available to selected users an app that includes a wallet and a QR code scanner.
Krungshree will do Receiving Over 2,000 staff members to participate in the project along with around 100 merchants located around the bank’s headquarters. This Increase Also the project in its Ploenchit branch. Sam Tanskul, Managing Director, Krungshree Innovate Said,
“The bank needs to determine a strategy to separate the retail CBDC from (its) instant payment service.”
Siam Commercial Bank’s pilot will operate similarly to Krungshri, with employees and neighboring merchants participating.
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The pilot was announced in August and was originally scheduled to launch in 2022. Bank of Thailand called The project is a “pilot to learn” rather than a pilot launch. The central bank has no official plans to launch a CBDC.
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The Bank of Thailand announced it was developing a wholesale CBDC in 2018. It participated in the Bank for International Settlements’ Ambridge Cross-Border Payment Project and Project Inthanon-Lion Rock Project with the Hong Kong Monetary Authority.
In March, the country waived corporate income tax and value-added tax for companies issuing investment tokens. A government spokesman said Thailand could lose around $1 billion in revenue, but the investment token is expected to generate $3.7 billion over the next two years.
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