The central bank of China and Hong Kong Monetary Authority is now discussing the technical pilot testing of digital renminbi for cross-border payments, said HKMA on Friday. The launch date for e-CNY hasn’t been set yet.

Sharing the recent development in the cross-border payment area, Eddie Yue, the chief executive of Hong Kong's central banking institution wrote,

“The HKMA and the Digital Currency Institute of People’s Bank of China are discussing the technical pilot testing of using e-CNY, the digital renminbi issued by the PBOC, for making cross-border payments, and are making the corresponding technical preparations.”

He further notes that with renminbi already in use in Hong Kong and e-CNY being the same as cash in circulation, “it will bring even greater convenience to Hong Kong and Mainland tourists.”

This development was shared in HKMA’s article on “A New Trend for Fintech – Cross-border Payment,” where it talks about the share of e-payment in Hong Kong being one of the highest among the world’s developed economies.

While the domestic payment service has become highly digitized, development in cross-border payments is lagging behind globally.

For this, HKMA launched a joint research project with the Bank of Thailand last year to address the various cross-border payment issues by using central bank digital currencies (CBDC) and a blockchain platform. Yue noted,

“The research project has entered its second stage, including exploring specific business applications as well as the operability and scalability of the platform to allow the participation of three or more CBDCs.”

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