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British finance minister Rishi Sunak told the Bank of England on Monday to look at the case for a new “britcoin”, or central bank-backed digital currency.

European Central Bank president Christine Lagarde called on Wednesday for global regulation of bitcoin, saying the digital currency had been used for money laundering activities.

Barely a month after the European Central Bank issued a major report on the topic, its president, Christine Lagarde, has said “her hunch” is that the euro zone could have its own electronic currency within two to four years.