Swift to Launch Digital Asset Trials in 2025
Messaging utility Swift says financial institutions will have the ability to use its platform to conduct pilot transactions for the… Read More »
Messaging utility Swift says financial institutions will have the ability to use its platform to conduct pilot transactions for the… Read More »
A joint report published by the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) and the Australian Treasury, says that while the two… Read More »
The subject of wholesale central bank digital currencies has gained new momentum this year and like so much in the… Read More »
Following a successful pilot in late 2022, Project mBridge, a central bank digital currency (CBDC) platform created by the BIS… Read More »
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has announced the launch of Project Rialto, that will explore how instant cross-border payments… Read More »
Financial messaging network Swift has announced the findings of a six-month testing period on its central bank digital currency (CBDC)… Read More »
A paper published by the Bank for International Settlements takes aim at stablecoins, observing that not one in circulation has… Read More »
The Swiss National Bank (SNB) has announced that on 1 December 2023, it will launch phase III of Project Helvetia,… Read More »
Ripple has extended its push into the world of central bank digital currencies (CBDC) by winning the contest to become… Read More »
Deutsche Bank and Standard Chartered’s SC Ventures business have completed the first Universal Digital Payments Network (UDPN) proof-of-concept (PoC), by… Read More »
Swift says it has entered a new phase of its work on Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) interoperability, announcing that… Read More »
A new report from the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) and Digital Finance Cooperative Research Centre highlights a range of… Read More »
With The Full FX View The Global Foreign Exchange Division’s Market Architecture Group (MAG) has published a third study… Read More »
The Banque de France (BdF) has published a second report resulting from its second set of experiments with tokenisation and… Read More »
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) says an increasing number of central banks are in engaged in some form of… Read More »
Two firms, eCurrency Mint and CMA have announced a partnership to provide central banks with an integrated Real Time Gross… Read More »
As part of Project Polaris, the BIS Innovation Hub Nordic Centre has published a comprehensive handbook exploring key aspects of how central… Read More »
The non-profit organisation Digital Dollar Project (DDP), which has been created to encourage research and public discussion on the potential… Read More »
The pace of work at the BIS Innovation Hub shows no sign of slowing down, wits its Swiss centre unveiling… Read More »
The latest central bank study on the future of payments using wholesale central bank digital currencies (wCBDCs) has run phase… Read More »
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) and four central banks have completed a successful pilot of the use of central… Read More »
The provisional programme for the 60th World Congress of ACI – The Financial Markets Association, which is being held in… Read More »
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), along with the Digital Finance Cooperative Research Centre (DFCRC) is to commence work on… Read More »
There may be those in the crypto industry wary of central bank digital currencies (CBDC) and in particular central bankers’… Read More »
Crypto technology provider Fireblocks has named Varun Paul, formerly head of fintech at the Bank of England to the role… Read More »
As the US government advances its analysis into the risks and benefits of a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), The Depository… Read More »
Just one week after the Bank of Canada signed a similar agreement, the Bank of England and the Massachusetts Institute… Read More »
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) Innovation Hub, the Reserve Bank of Australia, Bank Negara Malaysia, the Monetary Authority of… Read More »
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has unveiled its work programme for the BIS Innovation Hub in 2022 – a… Read More »
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) says it has, with the Swiss National Bank (SNB), Six Digital Exchange and five… Read More »
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) says that Raphael Auer will join the BIS Innovation Hub team in February as the head of… Read More »
The Banque de France says it has successfully completed the last experiment of its programme for interbank settlements in Central… Read More »
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York has launched the New York Innovation Centre (NYIC), to advance a strategic partnership with… Read More »
The UK Treasury and Bank of England have unveiled the next steps on their exploration of a central bank digital… Read More »
As it continues to drive forward work on central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) especially, the Bank for International Settlements’ Innovation… Read More »
A consortium of institutions led by Euroclear have successfully experimented with a central bank digital currency (CBDC) for settling French… Read More »
In noting that the “financial system is shifting under our feet”, the head of the BIS Innovation Hub, Benoît Coeuré,… Read More »
The Bank for International Settlements’ Innovation Hub, along with the Reserve Bank of Australia, Bank Negara Malaysia, Monetary Authority of… Read More »
A joint report by the Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures (CPMI), the BIS Innovation Hub, the International Monetary Fund… Read More »
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and Banque de France (BdF) say they have successfully a wholesale cross-border payment and… Read More »
There has been a sense in recent months that central bankers have become slightly more assertive in their message on… Read More »
The BIS Innovation Hub, the Bank of France and the Swiss National Bank have announced that, together with a private… Read More »
The US Federal Reserve is to publish a discussion paper in the coming months on the potential for a US… Read More »