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BIS Sees Tokenised Deposits Playing Bigger Role Than Stablecoins in Future Payments

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has backed tokenised deposits as a stronger foundation for future payments than stablecoins. BIS General Manager Pablo Hernández de Cos...

BIS Chief: Stablecoins Still Aren’t Credible Money at Scale

Bank for International Settlements (BIS) General Manager Pablo Hernández de Cos told the Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium on August 28 that stablecoins still fail as real mon...

Bessent praises Bank of Japan’s commitment to stability

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BIS Project Agorá settles $1 million in tokenized cross-border payment trials

Twenty-eight financial institutions and central banks completed real-value settlements across six currencies using tokenized central bank reserves and commercial bank deposits.The...

BIS Warns Stablecoins Are Breaking Capital Controls as Dollarization Accelerates

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) says U.S. dollar-pegged stablecoins are repeating a pattern central banks have watched for decades, and the regulatory tools that used...

Japan's top 3 banks boost foreign currency liquidity buffers to $1.25tn

The Essential Operational Safeguards for Partner-Bank Relationships

The scale and speed of Banking as a Service (BaaS) have fundamentally reshaped how cross-border pay...

Eight Central Banks Test Tokenised Cross-Border Payments Under Project Agorá

More than 40 financial institutions and eight central banks have tested a shared platform for tokenised cross-border payments under Project Agorá. The initiative, led by the Bank f...

The Essential Operational Safeguards for Partner-Bank Relationships (Sanjar Mavlyanov)

The scale and speed of Banking as a Service (BaaS) have fundamentally reshaped how cross-border pay...

Stablecoin Banking Service Providers Will Welcome Bank of England's Pivot

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Stablecoins fail payment credibility test, BIS says

BIS chief Pablo Hernández de Cos says stablecoins lack credibility for payments at scale and favors tokenized bank deposits for daily use.

UK Government tasks Bank of England to support payment systems innovation

The Bank’s new objective is to support innovation in payment systems and emerging forms of digital money innovations. Source

Bessent’s call to upsize Fed foreign lending facility may not be risk-free

BIS Finds New Use Case for XRP Ledger

The Bank for International Settlements just tested the XRP Ledger as a way to verify official economic statistics.

All that glitters isn’t gold for Asia’s central banks

TOKYO — Cue the jokes about “SAFE” — the acronym for the People’s Bank of China division entrusted with managing Beijing’s reserves. The folks at the PBOC’s State Administration of...

Bessent urges BOJ to maintain sound policy, avoid yen volatility

Is a ‘Bessent doctrine’ taking shape in global FX policy?

Ahead of Jackson Hole, Central Banks Are Rebuilding Reserves Around Gold

Theo’s Iggy Ioppe examines the reclassification of gold from a hedge against bad times to an increasingly important reserve asset. Unlike a Treasury, gold is nobody’s promise. The...

BIS Tests XRP Ledger to Anchor Official Statistics On-Chain in Proof-of-Concept Paper

A BIS working paper tested the XRP Ledger as a proof-of-concept for verifying official statistics on-chain. Here's what it found.

Big Banks Demand Identity Checks for Secondary Stablecoin Markets

The Bank Policy Institute, representing the massive U.S. banking lobby, filed a comment letter asking FinCEN to apply customer identification requirements to secondary stabilizatio...

Bessent seeks Fed help in defending yen in unusual call

Cooperation between the Federal Reserve and the Treasury to ensure financial stability isn't unusual, especially during periods of volatility.

BIS says AI boom risks clouding central banks' inflation signals

BIS Leader Questions the Feasibility of Stablecoins at Scale

Stablecoins have garnered significant industry attention in recent years, but an official at the Bank for International Settlements has raised concerns about the digital assets’ vi...