U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell are not keen on issuing a digital dollar.
“Chair Powell and I have discussed this at length- we both agree that in the near future, in the next five years, we see no need for the Fed to issue a digital currency,” Mnuchin said Thursday at a House Financial Services Committee hearing in Washington.
Mnuchin’s comment came in response to a lawmaker’s question that referred to Facebook-led Libra stablecoin under development and China’s upcoming digital yuan.