Latin America’s digital currency challenge
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In the Latin American region, traditional financial system players are facing a structural dilemma. The fundamental questions that mainly banks and regulators keep asking themselves are these: what changes should be made to the current financial system to suit the recent emergence of new digitalization phenomena? Should the major participants in traditional financial systems include cryptocurrencies into existing organizational frameworks or should they maintain a binary system where in the conflict between CBDCs and cryptocurrencies will take center stage in this modern era?
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