Clifford Chance
Facebook's Libra - an exciting but challenging road ahead
27 June 2019
Facebook has announced that it is to launch Libra, a global digital currency, backed by some of the biggest names in financial services and tech including Visa, Mastercard, Uber and Spotify. The aim is to provide instant international money transfers by blockchain for the 1.7 billion people around the world without a bank account. Libra is a “stablecoin” and so, unlike Bitcoin, for example, will be linked to a reserve of underlying stable assets to maintain its value. However, getting a project of this global reach and magnitude off the ground gives rise to a range of regulatory, legal, practical and political challenges, some of which we discuss in this briefing.
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