The current proposals for the Digital Euro include the facility to make payments completely offline. But why is this feature important? How will it be implemented? And how can the challenges of usability, anonymity, and preventing fraud be addressed? We find out from two people closely involved in the prototyping of offline payments: Sylvain Fourny (Portfolio Manager for Digital Banking at Worldline) and Ramuntcho Goyenetche (CBDC Delivery Manager at Worldline).

Season 2 of the Navigating Digital Payments podcast coincides with the publication of the second edition of the Worldline Discovery Hub's Navigating Digital Payments report which you can download by visiting ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠worldline.com and selecting Resources | Navigating Digital Payments⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

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