BIS joins France and Switzerland's central banks on cross-border CBDC project
The central bank digital currency project will test cross-border settlement between French and Swiss fiat currencies. The Bank of France and the Swiss National Bank are teaming up with the Bank for International Settlements’ Innovation Hub to test a wholesale central bank digital currency (CBDC) system dubbed “Project Jura.”According to a release by the Bank of France on Thursday, the Project Jura pilot study will also draw participation from a private consortium led by global service company Accenture. Other establishments in the private consortium include Credit Suisse, UBS, SIX Digital....
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Bank of France, the Swiss National Bank (SNB), and the Bank for International Settlements have successfully tested the application of wholesale central bank digital currency in cross-border payments. The project used distributed ledger technology and was realized with help from private firms.
France and Switzerland Explore Direct Transfer of Euro, Swiss Franc Wholesale Digital Currencies
An experiment carried out by the monetary authorities of France, Switzerland and the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has indicated that central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) can be....
The central banks of Switzerland and France are joining hands with the Bank for International Settlements to test wholesale central bank digital currencies in cross-border transactions. The experiment will be conducted with the help of a private sector consortium led by Accenture. European Central Banks to Collaborate on CBDC Project The Swiss National Bank (SNB), Banque de France, and the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) Innovation Hub have announced this week they’ll cooperate on trials exploring the use of wholesale central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) for cross-border....
The central banks of France and Singapore are working on a digital currency interoperability system supporting multiple global CBDCs. Financial authorities in France and Singapore are actively exploring the cross-border applications of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs).In a joint announcement on Thursday, the Bank of France and the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) said that they successfully completed a whole cross-border payment and settlement experiment using CBDCs and blockchain technology.The CBDC experiment was conducted with support and expertise from JPMorgan's digital....
Over $12 million in value was issued in the pilot with commercial and central banks in Hong Kong, Thailand, the UAE and China taking part. A multi-jurisdictional Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) pilot has been marked “successful” by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) after a month-long test phase that facilitated $22 million worth of real-value cross-border transactions.The central banks of Hong Kong, Thailand, China and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) took part in the pilot program along with 20 commercial banks from those regions.More than $12 million worth of value was....
Following a successful research phase between the two central banks, Consensys will develop a proof-of-concept for cross-border interbank blockchain payments. Blockchain firm ConsenSys announced Sep. 25 that it had been awarded the contract for a cross-border payment project between Thailand and Hong Kong.The company will lead the second implementation phase of Project Ithanon-Lionrock. The project is a joint initiative to create a cross-border central bank digital currency, or CBDC, payment network between banks in the two countries.Initiated in May 2019 by the Hong Kong Monetary....