Robert Bench, assistant vice-president at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, and Aman Cheema, global head of global real-time payments at FIS, join Patricia Haas Cleveland, US president of OMFIF, to discuss the key findings of the Boston Fed’s recent phase one report on Project Hamilton and look ahead to the challenges and next steps for a viable central bank digital currency. The conversation also touches on the global CBDC sandbox from FIS which is to be used by countries to assess the feasibility and viability of launching a CBDC.