Bank for International Settlements

Ghana launches CBDC; BIS says CBDCs will keep stablecoins at bay
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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...
BIS, 7 other banks publish CBDC policy, design considerations
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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,...
BIS highlights DeFi’s role in liquidity; Malaysia eyes CBDC
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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...
Is mBridge linked to the long-awaited BRICS payment solution?
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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...
BIS Project Agora selects 41 firms to tokenize deposits
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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...
Bank of England, BIS outline Pyxtrial project for monitoring stablecoins
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8 August, 2024

Bank of England, BIS outline Pyxtrial project for monitoring stablecoins

Reeling from the aftermath of the Terra collapse, the BIS and BoE will carry out Pyxtrial, an initiative focused on...
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