Use cases for central bank digital currencies (CBDC), the 100% digital version of sovereign fiat currencies, are being explored in more than 120 countries worldwide. Technology from Idemia Secure Transactions (IST) can process CBDC payments when made online, in-store or in-person. IST has integrated its offline CBDC technology with R3, whose blockchain provides central banks and financial institutions with programmable digital money for wholesale and retail CBDCs as well as private digital currencies. R3’s Corda tokenization platform supports 60 live applications globally. It offers us...