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European central banks look to GenAI to improve inflation forecasting

The Bank for International Settlements is working with the European Central Bank and Detusche Bundesbank to explore how generative AI could be applied to improve inflation forecasting.

20 November 2024

News/markets

Siemens issues €300 million digital bond on blockchain

Siemens has issued its second digital bond on blockchain rails in support of European Central Bank and Deutsche Bundesbank digital ledger trials.

05 September 2024

Company announcement/regulation

Deutsche Bundesbank abandons plans to expand office space as more worker go remote

The Deutsche Bundesbank plans to forgo the construction of new office buildings on its Central Office premises in Frankfurt am Main.

15 May 2024

News/sustainable

Central banks adopt LLMs to extract climate risk data from corporate reports

The Bank for International Settlements has completed proof-of-concept testing of Project Gaia, an initiative conducted in concert with three central banks to explore the use of natural language processing, optical character recognition and machine learning to extract climate-related data from corporate reports.

19 March 2024

Company announcement/crypto

BIS Project Atlas explores economic significance of cryptoassets and DeFi

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) and its partner central banks within the Eurosystem have developed a proof of concept to explore the macroeconomic relevance of cryptoasset markets and DeFi.

04 October 2023

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

News/crypto

Sibos 2023: Can CBDC replace cash?

At Sibos 2023 in Toronto, EY’s Christopher Woolard chaired a session on how digital currencies have made a big splash over the past few years and questioned whether they will be merely a drop in the ocean.

19 September 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/payments

EBAday 2021: Payments innovation and the benefits cascading down the waterfall model

EBAday 2021 has flown by, and the sessions throughout day three of the event served to build on the momentum from day one and two. Another punchy strategic roundtable addressed the need for industry-wide collaboration to drive payments innovation, while two boisterous chatrooms tackled the weighty subjects of Open Banking, CBDCs and stablecoins.

30 June 2021

News/payments

German central bank makes case for blockchain settlement in CBDC debate

Germany's central bank says that successful tests of a project to implement a distributed ledger for electronic securities settlement should negate the need for a central bank digital currency.

25 March 2021

News/payments

Target2 experiences total system failure, Sepa payments delayed

A complete failure of all payment transactions within the Target2 system was experienced for several hours on Friday, with backup systems and contingency modules also initially unable to function.

26 October 2020

News

Deutsche Bundesbank: DLT offers "substantial benefits" for collateral management

Deutsche Börse and Deutsche Bundesbank have issued an optimistic assessment of the use of distributed ledger technology in the management of bank collateral.

23 January 2020