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