Central bank digital currencies in Africa
Source: BIS This paper, based on a survey to central banks, analyses the development, motivations and concerns of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) in Africa relative to other emerging and developing regions. The interest of African central banks in CBDCs has shot up in recent times. While all of those surveyed are analysing CBDCs, only […]
BIS and central banks of France, Singapore and Switzerland to explore cross-border CBDC trading and settlement using DeFi protocols
Source: BIS The BIS Innovation Hub is launching a new project around central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) and Decentralised Finance (DeFi) protocols as part of its 2022 work programme. Project Mariana explores automated market makers (AMM) for the cross-border exchange of hypothetical Swiss franc, euro and Singapore dollar wholesale CBDCs. It will seek to examine the potential […]
Project Aurum: a prototype for two-tier central bank digital currency (CBDC)
Source: BIS Project Aurum is a collaboration between the BIS Innovation Hub Hong Kong Centre, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, and the Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute. Aurum is a full-stack (front-end and back-end) central bank digital currency (CBDC) system comprising a wholesale interbank system and a retail e-wallet system. The aim was […]
Project Rosalind Phase 1 – Invitation for Expression of Interest (EOI) for API Users and Advisors Group
Using CBDCs across borders: lessons from practical experiments
BIS to launch market intelligence platform amid stablecoin, DeFi collapse
Gaining momentum – Results of the 2021 BIS survey on central bank digital currencies
BIS and Bank Indonesia invite global innovators to take up CBDC challenges
CBDCs for the People
Central bank digital currencies: a new tool in the financial inclusion toolkit?
