Kiffmeister’s #Fintech Daily Digest (01/03/2022)

Boston Fed seeks project manager for CBDC development

The Boston Fed is looking for a Project Management Director to lead its Project Hamilton work on a hypothetical general purpose central bank digital currency (CBDC) with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Digital Currency Initiative. This research will assist the Fed in more deeply understanding technology tradeoffs among design options, and will result in the open source publication of software to support CBDC research. The new position will presumably report to Jim Cunha, Executive Vice President of Secure Payments and FinTech, who has worked at the Boston Fed since 1984. [Rear more]

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