The central bank will incorporate weather factors in economic forecast models, use monetary policy to promote sustainable finance, and invest in green bonds.
January 5, 2023Non-bank e-money issuers and other entities can become direct participants of the RTGS payment system without being sponsored by existing participants.
December 29, 2022The legislation changes the central bank's mandate, shifts crypto sector oversight to OJK, makes a digital rupiah legal tender, and introduces a carbon trading framework.
December 20, 2022Informal restrictions on rupee NDF trades in the offshore market were imposed in October to help defend a falling rupee.
December 17, 2022More than 80 percent of banks have already implemented a 24/7 dedicated complaint hotline for customers to report incidents or suspicions of fraud.
December 16, 2022Frozen Russian assets would be actively managed to generate a “stable and fair net return” to help fund reconstruction efforts in Ukraine.
December 4, 2022Participants include BNY Mellon, Citi, HSBC, Mastercard, PNC Bank, TD Bank, Truist, US Bank, Wells Fargo, SETL, Digital Asset, AWS, SWIFT, Sullivan & Cromwell, and Deloitte.
November 17, 2022PBOC deputy governor Fan Yifei has been placed under investigation over allegations of “severe violations of discipline and law”.
November 7, 2022The BOT expects to begin testing retail CBDC applications with the private sector in December. Ahead of the tests, the BOT is inviting firms to suggest "interesting use cases".
October 31, 2022A two-tier prototype system was developed to test intermediated CBDC as well as stablecoins backed by CBDC in the interbank system.
October 25, 2022