BIS is looking for a blockchain engineer to take a lead on its digital currency initiatives, which includes CBDC and digital security research.
The fintech showcase has three $50,000 cash prizes for three regtech focus areas.
The Bank for International Settlements is expanding its “Innovation Hub” with a handful of new locations in Canada and Europe.
The Bank for International Settlements appears to contradict its own prior statements in a new digital payments report.
BIS researchers think COVID-19 may accelerate the adoption of digital payments and sharpen the debate over central bank digital currencies.
Sweden’s Riksbank says its digital currency researchers are the best in central banking.
Researchers at the Bank for International Settlements say the future of payments may be peer to peer, but a number of considerations must be satisfied before distributed ledger-based systems can go mainstream.
A fifth of the world's population may well have access to a central bank digital currency in as little as three years, according to a BIS survey.
Stablecoins pose a money laundering and terrorist financing risk to the world, the FATF said Friday.
An economist at the Bank for International Settlements has come out in favor of building regulation into blockchain-based financial markets.
The Libra Association is to be grilled by 26 central banks over the perceived risks to financial stability posed by the crypto project.
The chief of the Bank for International Settlements has acknowledged that central banks will likely soon need to issue their own digital currencies.
The Bank for International Settlements has expressed concerns over the expected disruption as big tech firms like Facebook enter the financial space.
BIS chief Agustin Carstens has said that central banks are wary about issuing digital currencies due to the "huge operational consequences."
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has warned that the growth of cryptocurrencies poses a number of risks to banks.