The reporter learned from the Chinese government website yesterday that the overall plan for the China (Beijing) Pilot Free Trade Zone was officially released on the 21st. The plan stated that it will support the People's Bank of China Digital Currency Research Institute to establish a financial technology center, build a legal digital currency pilot zone and a digital financial system, rely on the People's Bank of China's trade finance blockchain platform to form a trade finance blockchain standard system, and strengthen supervision Innovation.
This is another heavy news in the trial process of legal digital currency (DC/EP).
Recently , the "China Finance" magazine under the central bank published an article entitled "New Opportunities for the Development of China's Legal Digital Currency", stating that the legal digital currency has completed its technical reserves and has the conditions for landing. It is recommended to further strengthen publicity of legal digital currency in the future , sum up pilot experience, and expand application scenarios.
Related listed companies are also actively preparing for new business opportunities in the DC/EP era.
Zhengtong Electronics stated yesterday that in response to the launch of the central bank's legal digital currency , the company established a special research group for the "digital currency project". Zhengtong Electronics stated on the interactive platform that the group focused on research and development and internal testing of samples in key areas such as digital currency encryption algorithms, digital wallet devices and their applications, digital currency payment modules and payment devices, and digital currency acquiring devices. , Strive to build the company's complete financial technology research and development system , product system and application support platform, and make relevant technical reserves and product pre-research in advance for the company's rapid future development.
Before Zhengtong Electronics, a group of listed companies also announced opportunities to pay attention to the legal digital currency field.
Financial equipment and hardware manufacturers tend to actively announce relevant developments . Royal Bank Co., Ltd. established a digital currency research center to conduct research on the application of legal digital currency transaction processing on smart devices, combining its own advantages in encryption and decryption, biometrics, and data secure transmission to develop software wallets and hardware wallets .
GRG consolidate and enhance research and development in the traditional banking self-service equipment , to strengthen the legal digital currency Scenario development work, the main research direction is the exchange between legal digital currency and bank account money on self-service equipment. As of now, it is still in the research and development stage, and there is no digital currency related business income.
Feitian and enhance research and development in the consolidation of the traditional banking self-service equipment , to strengthen the legal digital currency Scenario development work.
Everbright Technology previously announced the establishment of a special research project team on the central bank's legal digital currency, so that when the central bank's digital currency is launched and issued, it can provide commercial banks or other non-bank commercial institutions with a set of reliable and advanced technology, security to meet requirements, and performance Technical solutions to meet high-frequency concurrency.
Wanhe Securities stated that bank IT vendors that have competitive advantages in core systems, mobile banking and other sub-fields , suppliers that occupy a large share of terminal hardware equipment such as ATM machines and POS machines, and those with mature identity authentication or encryption technology Service providers, etc., will participate in the construction of the future market for legal digital currencies.
Bank of China Securities believes that it is currently not clear that the DC/EP software system will be implemented by vendors outside the central bank . In contrast, as banking apps replace some mobile payment scenarios, the demand for bank data centers grows, and the third-party operation and maintenance market is expected to take the lead.