248 results about this entity
Period: 19 Mar 2007 - 24 Apr 2025
News/crypto
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) and the central banks of France, Singapore and Switzerland have successfully tested the cross-border trading and settlement of wholesale central bank digital currencies (wCBDCs) between financial institutions, using new decentralised finance (DeFi) technology concepts on a public blockchain.
28 September 2023
BIS general manager Agustin Carstens has called on countries to modernise their existing legal frameworks in a way that ensures legitimacy, privacy, integrity and choice for central bank digital currencies.
27 September 2023
The Bank for International Settlements says a joint experiment conducted with the central banks of Israel and Hong Kong proved the feasibility of a retail central bank digital currency (rCBDC) ecosystem that combines accessibility, competition and preventative cyber security, while retaining key advantages of physical cash.
12 September 2023
Company announcement/sustainable
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) is joining the COP28 Presidency and the Central Bank of the United Arab Emirates (CBUAE) to launch the COP28 UAE TechSprint, a technology initiative to foster innovation in scaling sustainable finance and combating climate change.
11 September 2023
Company announcement/startups
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) today announced the winners of the G20 TechSprint 2023 challenge during an award ceremony in Mumbai.
04 September 2023
Company announcement/crypto
The world's central banks are stepping up efforts to prepare the ground for central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) either as digital cash (retail) or tokenised reserves (wholesale).
11 July 2023
News/payments
The exploration by central banks into digital currencies shows no sign of cooling, with 15 retail and nine wholesale CBDCs expected to enter circulation by the end of the decade, according to new data from the bank for International Settlements.
10 July 2023
A novel type of financial infrastructure combining tokenised money and assets on a programmable platform could radically alter the global financial system, argues a new report from the Bank for International Settlements.
04 July 2023
A pilot project involving central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) jointly run by the Bank of England (BoE) and the Bank of International Settlements (BIS).
16 June 2023
A new prototype developed as part of Project Dynamo explored how institutional investors can be encouraged to finance small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) through the programmability and transferability of digital trade tokens on a public blockchain.
08 June 2023
News/security
A secure communication channel designed to protect financial data against future threats from quantum computers has been successfully established by the BIS Innovation Hub Eurosystem Centre, in concert with Banque de France and Deutsche Bundesbank.
05 June 2023
News/regulation
Using payments data, privacy-enhancing technologies, AI and enhanced cooperation for a behavioural-based analysis approach to detecting money laundering networks is more effective than the current rules-based approach, concludes new research from the BIS Innovation Hub.
31 May 2023
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