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a supranational currency imagined by Keynes between 1940–1942 and which the UK proposed to introduce after WWII; it could then be used in international trade as a unit of account within a multilateral clearing system—the International Clearing Union—which would also have to be founded

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An international fund would be created to play the role of the world's central bank and issue its currency--the bancor, as Keynes provisionally named it.

—p.25 And the Weak Suffer What They Must (13) by Yanis Varoufakis
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The key role played by this new international central bank – the ICU – would be to manage flows of money between states, and to use a new currency, bancor, as the relevant currency. (In other words, a neutral currency, not the currency of one imperial power.)

—p.150 Subordinating Finance, Restoring Democracy (131) by Ann Pettifor
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