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JPMorgan Joins BIS Cross-Border Payments Project Using Digital Currencies
JPMorgan Joins BIS Cross-Border Payments Project Using Digital Currencies
September 18, 2024  |  Cross-border Payments

Some of the world’s biggest banks and payments firms are teaming to rethink cross-border payments. As Bloomberg News reported Wednesday (Sept. 18), the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has...

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Tokenization’s Rise Offers New Ways to Monetize Data and Real World Assets
Tokenization’s Rise Offers New Ways to Monetize Data and Real World Assets
August 01, 2024  |  Payments Innovation

The concept behind tokenization is simple. Tokenization is a tech-enabled way to safeguard sensitive information by replacing it with non-sensitive, scrambled strings of information. The...

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BIS: Central Banks See Opportunities and Challenges From AI
BIS: Central Banks See Opportunities and Challenges From AI
July 02, 2024  |  Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence is poised to transform the financial sector and broader economy, creating opportunities and risks that central banks must navigate carefully, according to a...

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BIS Plans to Expand World’s Instant Payment Systems
BIS Plans to Expand World’s Instant Payment Systems
July 01, 2024  |  Real-Time Payments

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) wants to expand the world’s largest instant payment system (IPS). BIS announced Monday (July 1), that it had completed...

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BIS: Financial Sector Among ‘Most Exposed’ to AI Benefits, Risks
BIS: Financial Sector Among ‘Most Exposed’ to AI Benefits, Risks
June 26, 2024  |  artificial intelligence

The financial sector is among the “most exposed” to both the benefits and the risks of artificial intelligence (AI), the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) said...

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Interoperability and Extensibility Will Define New Era for B2B Payments
Interoperability and Extensibility Will Define New Era for B2B Payments
June 10, 2024  |  B2B Payments

As the world gets increasingly globalized, the ways that businesses transact become more important. With the Bank for International Settlements’ Committee on Payments and Market...

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Basel Committee Warns Against Banking Digitalization Risks
Basel Committee Warns Against Banking Digitalization Risks
May 16, 2024  |  Banking

A global financial watchdog is warning against the risks of digitalization in the financial world. The Bank for International Settlements’ Basel Committee on Banking Supervision issued a report Thursday (May...

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Central Banks and BIS Test Tokenization to Speed Cross-Border Payments   
Central Banks and BIS Test Tokenization to Speed Cross-Border Payments   
April 03, 2024  |  Cross-border Payments

Tokenization is gaining momentum on the global stage, and with commercial applications. The Bank for International Settlements announced Wednesday (April 3) that it is working in tandem...

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BIS Report: BNPL Plans Pose Risks and ‘Warrant Monitoring’
BIS Report: BNPL Plans Pose Risks and ‘Warrant Monitoring’
December 04, 2023  |  BNPL

Buy now, pay later (BNPL) plans have been marked by higher delinquency rates even as growth and enthusiasm for those payments offerings have soared, the...

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