New paper from the BIS, IMF and World Bank assesses the benefits and challenges associated with using multilateral platforms for cross-border payments.
January 20, 2023Under the ‘Ubin+’ initiative, MAS will develop technical standards, infrastructure, and policy guidelines to support atomic settlement of FX transactions using CBDCs.
November 4, 2022The mBridge project team will continue working to get to a minimum viable product that can be used by early adopters next year.
October 27, 2022The next phase of retail CBDC testing will involve Bank of Ayudhya, Siam Commercial Bank, payments provider 2C2P, and technology from Giesecke+Devrient.
August 8, 2022The report covers four experiments, Project Inthanon-LionRock, Project Jura, Project Dunbar, and Project mBridge.
June 23, 2022The highest ranking retail CBDC projects were from Nigeria, the Bahamas, and China. The highest ranking wholesale CBDC projects were from Thailand, Hong Kong and Singapore.
April 14, 2022HKMA's Eddie Yue said the combined power of the three infrastructures will pave the way for digitalising cross-border trade across APAC.
January 28, 2022The BIS Innovation Hub will launch new projects into CBDCs, payments systems, DeFi, green finance, regtech, suptech and cybersecurity.
January 26, 2022The second phase of the ongoing CBDC trails between the Mainland and Hong Kong will involve connecting e-CNY wallets to Hong Kong’s FPS.
December 22, 2021The mBridge project team has collaborated with private sector participants to identify 15 potential business use cases that are now being tested.
November 7, 2021