Bank for International Settlements (BIS)

234 results about this entity

Period: 19 Mar 2007 - 16 Oct 2024

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G20 TechSprint Initiative invites firm to tackle green finance

The BIS Innovation Hub and the Bank of Italy are launching a virtual hackathon-style competition to find new technological ways to tackle challenges in green and sustainable finance.

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AI in regulation to be strategic priority for Basel Committee

The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision is today publishing its work programme for 2021-22.

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Basel Committee publishes analytical report on climate-related financial risk

The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision today publishes two analytical reports: Climate-related risk drivers and their transmission channels and Climate-related financial risks – measurement methodologies.

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Basel Committee issues principles for operational resilience and risk

The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision today issued Principles for operational resilience, which aim to make banks better able to withstand, adapt to and recover from severe adverse events.

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BIS Innovation Hub and Swift announce winners of ISO 20022 and API hackathon

The BIS Innovation Hub and SWIFT today announced the winners of the ISO 20022 hackathon, which invited teams to build and showcase solutions that enhance cross-border payments, using the ISO 20022 standard for payments messages and application programming interfaces (APIs).

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BIS study finds global fintech gender gap

There is a significant global fintech gender gap, with men far more likely to use financial technology products and services than women, according to a survey from the Bank for International Settlement (BIS).

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BIS reports on Big Data and machine learning in central banking

The world is changing and so is the way it is measured. For decades, policymakers and the private sector have relied on data released by official statistical institutions to assess the state of the economy.

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China and UAE central banks explore CBDC for cross-border payments

The central banks of China and the United Arab Emirates are joining their counterparts in Thailand and Hong Kong on a CBDC project investigating cross-border foreign currency payments.

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BIS and Swift to host ISO 20022 hackathon

The Bank for International Settlements and Swift are to run an ISO 20022 and API hackathon in a global search for new ways to make cross-border payments faster, cheaper and more transparent.

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Bitcoin may 'break down altogether' - BIS chief

Bitcoin may "break down altogether", according to BIS general manager Agustin Carstens, who has also poured cold water on stablecoin projects such as the Facebook-led Diem and argued that if digital currencies are needed they should be issued by central banks.

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BIS Innovation Hub targets CBDCs and green finance in 2021

An investigation into the use of multiple wholesale CBDCs for cross-border payments and a DLT prototype for the distribution of tokenised green bonds to retail investors are among the projects on the agenda this year for the Bank for International Settlements Innovation Hub.

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BIS to develop Big Data open source prototype

The Bank for International Settlements is working on a data-streaming prototype capable of handling 2000 data points every second.