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In 2018 the Eurosystem introduced a powerful platform for the continuous settlement of instant payments (TARGET Instant Payment Settlement, or TIPS), putting the euro area at the forefront of retail payments. Sweden has recently joined TIPS (see ECB (2020), "Sweden joins ECB's instant payments settlement platform") and the Federal Reserve is taking steps to build an instant payments infrastructure, FedNow (see Brainard, L. (2020), "The Future of Retail Payments in the United States", speech at the FedNow Service Webinar, 6 August).
Another reason why the Fed might not see a pressing need for a digital dollar is that it already has a project that will democratize payments. Many of the improvements promised by a CBDC may be accomplished by the Fed's real-time payments system.
