- Australia’s Central Bank prioritizes wholesale central bank digital currency (wCBDC) over retail, citing greater economic benefits.
News · 18 September 2024
Australia’s Central Bank prioritizes wholesale central bank digital currency (wCBDC) over retail, citing greater economic benefits. The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has announced a strategic focus…
- Bank for International Settlements (BIS) Innovation Hub unveils its 2025-26 work programme, focusing on technological innovation and Central Bank collaboration
News · 14 January 2025
The BIS Innovation Hub is currently overseeing 26 active projects, with two new initiatives for 2025: Project AISE, which aims to improve financial supervision using artificial intelligence (AI), and…
- Bank for International Settlements (BIS), central banks and banking sector to explore tokenisation of cross-border payments.
News · 3 April 2024
Project Agorá, a collaborative effort between the BIS and seven central banks, is set to involve the private sector in investigating how the tokenisation of wholesale central bank money and…
- Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) launches digital asset innovation hub to explore stablecoins and programmable payments
Event · 17 June 2025
The initiative was officially opened during the Sasana Symposium 2025 on 17-18 June, with the Prime Minister presiding over the ceremony at Sasana Kijang. The hub aims to stimulate financial…
- Project Pyxtrial: monitoring the backing of stablecoins - Documentation
Case study · 31 July 2024
The BIS Innovation Hub has published a report on Project Pyxtrial, a technology solution first announced in February last year as an effort to prevent asset-liability mismatches on stablecoins. The…
- Design note – Blueprint framework
Report, Roadmap · 14 January 2025
Bank of England (BoE) publishes blueprint framework for digital pound. The BoE has released a blueprint for the digital pound, outlining the aims, scope, and design focus areas of its retail central…
- Bank of England (BoE) publishes findings on point-of-sale (POS) testing for digital pound payments
Report · 16 May 2024
The report details how existing POS terminals in the UK could, in principle, be used to initiate digital pound payments and that those terminals do not appear to require modification to do so. The…
- Bank of England (the Bank) and Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) open Digital Securities Sandbox (DSS).
Report · 30 September 2024
Bank of England (the Bank) and Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) open Digital Securities Sandbox (DSS). Following the feedback received after consultation with the industry, which closed on 29 May…
- Bank of England and FCA joint approach to the Digital Securities Sandbox
Report, News · 30 September 2024
Bank of England and Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) open Digital Securities Sandbox (DSS). Following the feedback received after consultation with the industry, which closed on 29 May, the FCA and…
- Bank of Ghana (BoG) partners with Singapore’s MAS in testing the use of digital currency for cross-border trade.
News · 14 June 2024
The BoG in collaboration with the MAS has successfully completed the first proof of concept (POC) under Project DESFT (Digital Economy Semi-Fungible Token) which demonstrated the use of digital…
- Bank for International Settlements (BIS), central banks and the Institute of International Finance (IIF) invite private financial institutions to join Project Agorá.
News · 14 May 2024
This joint public-private initiative launched by the BIS, a group of leading central banks and the IIF, invites the private sector to join its exploration of how tokenisation can enhance the…
- Bank of Israel selects 14 teams to participate in digital shekel challenge.
News · 28 May 2024
The challenge, inspired by “Project Rosalind” carried out by the BIS Innovation Hub, seeks to examine the possibility of issuing a central bank digital currency (CBDC), or digital shekel. The…
- Bank of Israel to launch CBDC sandbox
News · 17 April 2024
The regulator is continuing its explorations into the possibility of a CBDC by launching a sandbox for the private sector to develop ‘innovative use-cases’. The authority is building an application…
- Banque de France governor proposes European Union distributed-ledger technology (DLT)-based unified ledger.
News · 13 September 2024
At an EU policy-focused conference in Brussels, Governor François Villeroy de Galhau proposed a regional outlook for tokenization based on DLT. Villeroy urged exploration into a new public-private…
- Basel Committee publishes final disclosure framework for banks' crypto asset exposures and targeted amendments to its crypto asset standard.
News · 17 July 2024
The final disclosure framework includes a set of standardised tables and templates covering banks' crypto asset exposures that require banks to disclose qualitative information on their crypto…
- BERTH4ETH
Open Code
This GitHub repository houses code (TensorFlow version) and datasets for the paper "BERT4ETH: A Pre-trained Transformer for Ethereum Fraud Detection," accepted at ACM Web conference (WWW) 2023…
- Beyond Pilots and Sandboxes: Regulatory Innovation through SupTech Case Studies and Leading Practices
Report, News · 1 June 2025
New white paper examines suptech implementation beyond pilots and sandboxes. The Alliance for Innovative Regulation and Amazon Web Services have published this paper exploring how regulators can…
- The Finternet: A giant leap for the financial system (Speech by Mr Agustín Carstens)
Video, Speech · 19 April 2024
BIS General Manager advances vision for future tokenised financial system. In a speech, at the Peterson Institute for International Economics event, Agustín Carstens presented a working paper by him…
- BIS Innovation Summit 2024: Navigating rapid innovation
Event · 6 May 2024
The Bank of International Settlements (BIS) will be hosting the fourth edition of the BIS Innovation summit between 6th and 8th May 2024. Held virtually and in person in Basel, the event brings…
- BIS launches first innovation hub in the Americas
News · 13 June 2024
The Bank for International Settlements and Bank of Canada inaugurated the BIS Toronto Innovation Centre, marking the seventh global BIS Innovation Hub and the first in the Americas. The centre will…
- BIS warns banks of emerging risks from permissionless blockchains.
Report · 28 August 2024
According to a recent paper published by the BIS, permissionless blockchains or similar distributed ledger technologies (DLTs) introduce several risks that banks are still grappling with. The paper…
- Blockchain and AI needed to tackle illicit financial flows (IFFs), says Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) chairman.
News · 1 July 2024
Olanipekun Olukoyede, the Chairman of Nigeria’s EFCC, has underscored the potential of blockchain technology and AI in combatting IFFs across Africa. Speaking at the Pan-African Conference on Illicit…
- Blockchain intelligence company, Crystal, to provide blockchain data for the European Central Bank (ECB).
News · 30 July 2024
Crystal has recently announced this strategic partnership with the ECB, a collaboration that aims to leverage Crystal’s comprehensive blockchain data to enhance financial oversight and stability in…
- Blockchain researchers use AI to spot cryptocurrency money laundering
News · 2 May 2024
Researchers from Elliptic, IBM Watson and MIT have explored subgraph representation learning in the context of complex networks, specifically focusing on analysing local structures (or shapes) within…
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