Robert Bench, assistant vice president at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, and Aman Cheema, senior vice president and general manager 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. They look ahead to the challenges and next steps for a viable central bank digital currency, and touch on FIS’ global CBDC sandbox which will be used by countries to assess the feasibility and viability of launching a CBDC.