LONDON (Reuters) - Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey said he did not think that privately operated digital currencies known as stablecoins were suitable for widespread use or could be trusted as a safe store of value like many traditional currencies.
“The bar is set very high for private stablecoins, and I don’t think they have met that bar,” Bailey told a European Central Bank panel discussion, echoing previous scepticism about projects such as Facebook’s Libra.
“It may be that the answer ... is actually a central bank digital currency, where you would get that guarantee and certainty of value,” he added.
Reporting by David Milliken; editing by Stephen Addison
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