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Tap and Pray, perhaps :-) 

Augustin is spot on with his request. I have argued for a number of years that to improve Global Financial Stability needs a coordinated plan against a new model, not a domestic rehash of what we already have. Through coordinated regulatory action using modern and robust global infrastructure, that incidentally is already built, the global movement of money between commercial and central banks can be streamlined. The result would significantly improve every economy on the planet and, in my mind a very worthy prize. 

This result is not surprising. Whenever you innovate you get those that embrace and those that fear the impact. Part of the issue with a mixture of CBDC variants is that it needs a clear global demonstration of how a particular, say wCBDC could work. This would demonstrate its benefits, risks and issues to banks and regulators alike. The corollary is that we all now accept Swift, and the global interoperability of the Card schemes, but I wonder if a poll like this had been undertaken when the idea was proposed, what the results would have been? Anyone remember traveller or eurocheques ? Right for the time and now obsolete ?