The Financial Times reports that Facebook continues to negotiate with the CFTC over plans for a digital currency.

• Will be a part of Facebook push in to payments, a new digital payments network to allow users to transfer money, buy items on the platform, its apps Instagram and WhatsApp, and across the wider net.
• plans a a “stablecoin” (a digital coin pegged to a fiat currency)
• Commodity Futures Trading Commission said its in “very early stages of conversations” with Facebook