While there are potential benefits to the tokenization of money, there are also costs and risks that need to be considered, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) said Monday (Oct. 21). These risks may materialize in ways different from those faced by conventional market infrastructures,...
Interlinking fast payments systems (FPS) across different jurisdictions could enhance cross-border payments, making them low cost, fast, easy to access and transparent, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) said Tuesday (Oct. 15). The organization said this in a press release announcing the BIS Committee on...
Some of the world’s biggest banks and payments firms are teaming to rethink cross-border payments. As Bloomberg News reported Wednesday (Sept. 18), the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has recruited the likes of JPMorgan Chase, Deutsche Bank, UBS, Visa and Mastercard for its Agora project. That project, first announced in May, explores the development of...
The concept behind tokenization is simple. Tokenization is a tech-enabled way to safeguard sensitive information by replacing it with non-sensitive, scrambled strings of information. The practice of tokenization within the financial services realm might be most readily apparent with the tens of billions of tokens...
July 02, 2024
Artificial intelligence is poised to transform the financial sector and broader economy, creating opportunities and risks that central banks must navigate carefully, according to a top official at the Bank for International Settlements. In a Sunday (June 30) speech at the BIS annual meeting, Hyun Song Shin, economic adviser and head of research, explained how […]
April 03, 2024
Tokenization is gaining momentum on the global stage, and with commercial applications. The Bank for International Settlements announced Wednesday (April 3) that it is working in tandem with seven central banks —...
November 09, 2023
The hallmark of stablecoins has been instability. In a paper published this week by the Bank of International Settlements (BIS), the analysis shows that with a decade of trading history, none...
July 18, 2023
As you read this, the very nature of money is being interrogated and experimentally reshaped. “There’s a huge global trend going on right now into exploring the intricacies, complexities, difficulties...
October 29, 2024
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) says it has demonstrated that regulatory compliance can be embedded in cross-border transaction protocols. BIS announced Tuesday (Oct. 29) it made this discovery when working on its Project Mandala, a collaboration with four central banks. “Mandala is pioneering the compliance-by-design approach to improve cross-border payments without compromising privacy or the integrity of […]
October 21, 2024
While there are potential benefits to the tokenization of money, there are also costs and risks that need to be considered, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) said Monday (Oct....
October 15, 2024
Interlinking fast payments systems (FPS) across different jurisdictions could enhance cross-border payments, making them low cost, fast, easy to access and transparent, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) said Tuesday...
September 18, 2024
Some of the world’s biggest banks and payments firms are teaming to rethink cross-border payments. As Bloomberg News reported Wednesday (Sept. 18), the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has recruited the likes of JPMorgan Chase, Deutsche...
