Balancing Privacy & Compliance to Ensure High Privacy for CBDC Payments

Today, the public already accepts some financial privacy invasion. Existing digital payment methods, such as debit and credit cards, bank account transfers and mobile money payments do not have a high degree of privacy – and are growing in market share. Know-your-customer (KYC) measures are necessary to open bank accounts and, ultimately, to conduct transactions. That confidential KYC and transaction data is shared with intermediaries, such as banks, credit card companies, etc., that are involved in the transaction process.

Source: https://www.coindesk.com/consensus-magazine/2023/01/27/are-there-tech-solutions-to-the-privacy-and-compliance-tradeoffs-for-cbdcs/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=headlines