The incredible boom in fintech and crypto banking is eroding long-standing protections for depositors and creating wider systemic risks. Deposit insurance and depositor preference If you deposit money in a […]
Global financial regulators say the operators of digital tokens pegged to fiat currencies—stablecoins—must follow the stringent rules for other important financial infrastructures, such as payment systems, central securities depositories, securities […]
There’s no easy way to address the frictions affecting global money flows, says the Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures (CPMI), which looks after the safety and efficiency of the […]
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has issued a rallying call for countries to prevent the emergence of powerful new monopolies in the form of digital platforms run by large […]
For the regulators in charge of the global financial market’s infrastructure, new technologies are prompting a fundamental rethink of how payments and securities trades are settled. Now the Committee for […]
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) is boosting its response to innovative financial technology such as cryptocurrency by appointing European Central Bank board member Benoît Cœuré as the head of […]
Despite the rapid rise of digital payments, cash isn’t on its way out yet. That’s the key message from the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), which published its annual ‘Red […]