I don't think they fully know what they're up to themselves. That's why they're up for messing around with it. I settle on none of the options so far.
No bank, other than a central one, has ever made its own currency and they're not going to start now. They might look for solutions for inter bank and international transfers. They might look at tokenisation like mintchip.
It'll be interesting to see if there are any conclusions and innovations. They might come up with nowt or grudgingly start to look at integrating Bitcoin in a modest way. There's a role they could play there.
I'm with you on that.
they can't figure out how to profit from it, so it is an odd beastie. they're not sure what it is, but they know it's something, so they're tinkering with it to see if they can profitize it somehow.