
Bank for International Settlements
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6 March, 2025
Public blockchains can create ‘unprecedented efficiency’: ECB
European Central Bank's Ulrich Bindseil is correct: scalable public blockchains are superior, and CBDCs could be minted on them.
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28 February, 2025
Ghana launches CBDC; BIS says CBDCs will keep stablecoins at bay
Ghana lags behind neighboring Nigeria in the CBDC race but says it’s ready to launch the e-Cedi this year; BIS...
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6 December, 2024
BIS, 7 other banks publish CBDC policy, design considerations
The central banks included England, Japan and the European Union, and delved into privacy, preventing crime, the two-tier system, cybersecurity,...
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27 November, 2024
BIS highlights DeFi’s role in liquidity; Malaysia eyes CBDC
The BIS highlights how DeFi democratizes the liquidity process, enabling investors to become liquidity providers; elsewhere, Malaysia looks into a...
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8 November, 2024
Is mBridge linked to the long-awaited BRICS payment solution?
A week after the BRICS Summit in Kazan, the BIS handed over the mBridge cross-border settlement system to the central...
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20 September, 2024
BIS Project Agora selects 41 firms to tokenize deposits
The 41 include Visa, Swift, Citi, JPMorgan, UBS, and Mastercard; meanwhile, the Qatar Financial Centre has selected 24 participants for...