- World Bank issues first international CHF digital bond.
News · 15 May 2024
The World Bank has priced the first Swiss franc-denominated digital bond issued by an international entity. It will be settled using Swiss franc wholesale central bank digital currency (wCBDC)…
- Andréa M Maechler speaks about the future financial system
Speech · 13 May 2024
Interview (originally in German) with Ms Andréa M Maechler, Deputy General Manager of the BIS, in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, conducted by Mr Thomas Fuster and Mr Peter Fischer and published on 13 May…
- Project Agorá: central banks and banking sector embark on major project to explore tokenisation of cross-border payments
News · 3 April 2024
Press release | 03 April 2024Project Agorá will explore how tokenisation of wholesale central bank money and commercial bank deposits on programmable platforms can improve the monetary system. The…
- Bridge of Cryptos: The Impact of Cross-Chain Technology on Market Efficiency
9 June 2025
Financial technology (fintech) plays a crucial role in shaping the efficiency of financial markets, with advancements that enhance market interoperability typically leading to greater overall…
- Blockchain Technology: Transforming Industries and Shaping the Future
22 May 2025
This paper explores the transformative potential of blockchain technology across a wide array of industries, moving beyond its origins in cryptocurrency to examine its applications in finance…
- Blockchain Technology: Its Ability to Transform Corporations' Corporate Social Responsibility Practices
4 June 2019
The technology of blockchain (‘Blockchain’) realises a more efficient, equitable, and transparent distributed ledger system. An important characteristic of Blockchain is its automated…
- Blockchain Technology Applications in Businesses and Organizations
8 April 2022
Blockchain technology has the ability to disrupt industries and transform business models since all intermediaries and stakeholders can now interact with little friction and at a fraction of the…
- Block Chain Technology in Digital Accounting
18 October 2022
The manual system of business process has been restricted by the Novel Covid-19, and people have begun to work digitally. Block chain technology cannot be ignored when it comes to digitalization.…
- Ravi Menon: Powering the next stage of Singapore FinTech
23 November 2020
Keynote address by Mr Ravi Menon, Managing Director of the Monetary Authority of Singapore, at the Singapore-China (Chongqing) Financial Summit, via Video Conference from Singapore, 23 November…
- Report for the G20 on tokenisation highlights the opportunities, risks and future considerations for central banks
News · 21 October 2024
Press release | 21 October 2024Tokenisation could have implications for the future of finance and the role of central banks in payments, monetary policy and financial stability.While tokenisation…
- Shaping the future financial system in the public interest
Speech · 28 November 2023
Keynote speech by Ms Cecilia Skingsley, Head of the BIS Innovation Hub, at the "Exploring central bank digital currency: Evaluating challenges & developing international standards" conference, 28…
- Sharper supervision in an era of technology races
Speech · 15 April 2024
Keynote speech by Cecilia Skingsley, Head of the BIS Innovation Hub, at the Innovate Finance Global Summit, London, 15 April 2024.BIS, Innovation Hub speech | 15 April 2024by Cecilia SkingsleyGood…
- Signe Krogstrup: Money and payments - the five C's
Speech · 19 February 2024
Speech by Ms Signe Krogstrup, Governor of Danmarks Nationalbank, at the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management, Frankfurt am Main, 19 February 2024.The views expressed in this speech are those of…
- Stablecoins: risks, potential and regulation
Report · 24 November 2020
BIS Working Papers | No 905 | 24 November 2020by Douglas Arner, Raphael Auer and Jon FrostPDF full text (2,309kb) | 31 pagesSummaryFocusBoth the emergence of distributed ledger technology (DLT) and…
- The oracle problem and the future of DeFi
Report · 7 September 2023
BIS Bulletin | No 76 | 07 September 2023by Chanelle Duley, Leonardo Gambacorta, Rodney Garratt and Priscilla Koo WilkensPDF full text (1,193kb) | 9 pagesKey takeawaysCrypto-based decentralised…
- The Technology of Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
Report · 19 January 2023
BIS Working Papers | No 1066 | 19 January 2023by Raphael Auer, Bernhard Haslhofer, Stefan Kitzler, Pietro Saggese and Friedhelm VictorPDF full text (883kb) | 36 pagesSummaryFocus Decentralised…
- Yi Gang: Speech – Conference of the Bank of Finland Institute for Emerging Economics
Speech · 10 November 2021
Speech by Mr Yi Gang, Governor of the People's Bank of China, at the 30th Anniversary Conference of the Bank of Finland Institute for Emerging Economics, 10 November 2021.The views expressed in this…
- Bank of Italy develops custom bitcoin consensus for central bank distributed ledger technology (DLT)
News · 30 July 2024
The Bank of Italy has published a new DLT protocol, which it believes will have significant implications for work on central bank digital currencies and asset tokenisation. The Frosted Byzantine…
- Project Atlas explores economic significance of cryptoassets and DeFi
Solution, Proof of concept (POC) · 5 October 2023
BIS and its partners within the Eurosystem, De Nederlandsche Bank and the Deutsche Bundesbank are creating a data platform that has potential to shed light on the macroeconomic relevance of…
- Press Release - Bermuda Monetary Authority Advances Landmark Embedded Supervision Initiative To Architect Real-Time Regulatory Oversight For DeFi
News · 31 October 2025
The Bermuda Monetary Authority (Authority or BMA) has welcomed the continued progress of its Embedded Supervision pilot, a landmark initiative designed to test how regulatory oversight can evolve…
- Korea Securities Depository launches testbed platform for security tokens
News · 26 June 2025
The Korea Securities Depository announced that it has completed a testbed platform to respond to the legislation of security tokens.
- Pacific island nation partners Japanese fintech for blockchain bond issuances
News · 19 July 2024
The Pacific Island nation of Palau has entered into an agreement with Japanese fintech company Soramitsu, which co-developed Cambodia’s digital currency, to create a blockchain platform for issuing…
- Pacific island nation unveils blockchain-based savings bond ‘Palau Invest’ prototype
News · 10 October 2024
The prototype's public debut follows the announcement just under three months ago that Japan-headquartered fintech company Soramitsu was working on a system to issue, manage and operate savings bonds…
- Swiss central bank undertakes ‘world first’ tokenised ‘monetary policy operation’
News · 22 June 2024
The Swiss National Bank (SNB) announced it has become the world's first central bank to carry out a monetary policy operation in a live production environment using distributed ledger technology…
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