Economics & Finance
Monetary Internationalization via Liquidity Infrastructure
For a nation's currency to become an international reserve currency, it requires not only political influence and economic scale, but also technical infrastructure that enables foreign central banks to hold it and convert it back to cash at any time. The more robust this infrastructure, the lower the costs and risks for foreign central banks to hold the currency, and the stronger the currency's international standing.
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