Banque de France - News, Articles & Research

SocGen completes repo transaction on public blockchain

Societe Generale has carried out a collateralised market transaction fully executed on blockchain with France's central bank.

16 December 2024

News/security

Banque de France and Monetary Authority of Singapore complete post-quantum cryptography trial

The Banque de France (BdF) and the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) have completed a groundbreaking joint experiment in post-quantum cryptography (PQC) to strengthen internet communications and data transfers conducted across continents.

05 November 2024

Company announcement/sustainable

Central banks build resource for climate risk data

Climate change poses significant challenges to the global financial system, and financial authorities and institutions need access to reliable, consistent climate data to assess their exposure to its associated risks.

09 September 2024

News/payments

Banque de France and HKMA kick off cross-border CBDC project

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority is to become the first central banking institution outside of the EU to participate in the European Central Bank's digital euro exploratory project.

08 July 2024

News/Sibos

Sibos 2023: Forging a path to global CBDC interoperability

Interoperability was at the centre of Tuesday’s CBDC discussion at Sibos, with the panel investigating how to ensure that these incoming digital currencies will work at the cross-border level.

19 September 2023

Company announcement/crypto

Banque de France shares lessons learned from wholesale CBDC experiments using DLT technology

Following the publication of an initial report in 2021 , the Banque de France is now releasing a new set of conclusions and lessons learned, covering the first and the second tranches of its wholesale central bank digital currency (wCBDC) experimentation programme, launched in March 2020 and comprising twelve experiments.

21 July 2023

News/security

Central banks successfully test 'quantum resistant' communications channel

A secure communication channel designed to protect financial data against future threats from quantum computers has been successfully established by the BIS Innovation Hub Eurosystem Centre, in concert with Banque de France and Deutsche Bundesbank.

05 June 2023

News/crypto

Banque de France, HSBC, IBM test interoperability of wholesale CBDC

Following experiments demonstrating that DLT can be used with existing networks to complete CBDC financial transactions in real-time, Banque de France, HSBC and IBM have published a paper exploring their key findings.

16 December 2022

News/wholesale

France and Luxembourg complete CBDC experiment

The central banks of France and Luxembourg have used an experimental CBDC to settle a EUR100 million digital native bond.

30 November 2022

News/crypto

BIS and three central banks to test cross-border CBDCs using DeFi protocols

The Bank for Inernational Settlements is working with three central banks to explore cross-border CBDC trading and settlement using DeFi protocols.

03 November 2022

News/security

Banque de France tests 'post quantum' security tech

The Banque de France has been experimenting with "post-quantum" security technologies as it bids to prepare for a world where quantum computing leaves current IT systems vulnerable to hacks.

27 September 2022

News/wholesale

Banque de France steps up wholesale CBDC work

The Banque de France is accelerating its wholesale CBDC programme as it bids to be ready to bring in central bank money as a settlement asset as early as 2023.

13 July 2022