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Payments Benchmarks 2025 – model banks analysis - Central Banking

2 days ago | centralbanking.com | Daniel Hinge

The Payments Benchmarks 2025 show the overall direction of travel for central banks is towards greater interoperability. Central banks are aligning settlement hours, messaging standards and technology as they seek to boost cross-border payments. However, there are still major governance challenges to solve in achieving frictionless international transactions.
Stablecoins will not revolutionise money, says BIS

4 days ago | centralbanking.com | Daniel Hinge

Stablecoins have design flaws that render them unsuitable as the basis for a monetary revolution, the Bank for International Settlements said today (June 24). However, the early-release chapter of the organisation’s annual economic report adds that a “trilogy” – comprising tokenised versions of central bank money, commercial bank money and government bonds – could succeed where stablecoins would be likely to fail. Despite being touted as a possible solution to cross-border payment challenges, the
Working group minutes: a phased approach to 24/7 RTGS

1 week ago | centralbanking.com | Daniel Hinge

Several central banks are preparing a phased approach to transitioning their real-time gross settlement (RTGS) systems to round-the-clock operations, as they weigh potential trade-offs. Payments specialists who attended Central Banking’sin-person interbank working group in London on June 12 said that, in many cases, their systems were already technologically ready for 24/7 operations. However, the move implied potential operational and financial stability risks that needed careful consideration
Payments Benchmarks 2025 report – cross-border connections - Central Banking

1 week ago | centralbanking.com | Daniel Hinge

View a printable version of this report in PDF formatOne of the major unsolved challenges of global payments is how to establish efficient, multilateral, cross-border payments. Economies – especially those in developing countries – are being held back by inefficient correspondent banking chains. Know-your-customer checks are essential to the fight against money laundering and organised crime, but they slow down payments and raise the cost. However, the Payments Benchmarks 2025 highlight the
US Senate passes ‘Genius Act’ to regulate stablecoins

1 week ago | centralbanking.com | Joasia E. Popowicz

The US Senate yesterday (June 17) passed the country’s first significant bill aimed at regulating crypto assets: the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for US Stablecoins of 2025 Act, or Genius Act, which is designed to govern the issuance of stablecoinsThe bill, if enacted, would allow non-banks to issue their own ‘digital dollars’. It would also establish regulations for the approval and supervision of stablecoin issuers. Firms that wished to issue stablecoins would have to meet
US Basel III delay to 2026 seen as almost inevitable

1 week ago | centralbanking.com | Janice Kirkel

Former regulators doubt the three US prudential agencies will be able to release fresh proposals implementing internationally agreed bank capital reforms this year. “It’s going to take them a good amount of time to even do the negotiating with the other agencies about what the package itself looks like,” says Graham Steele, former assistant secretary for financial institutions at the US Treasury, and now an academic fellow at Stanford Law School. On June 4, Michelle Bowman was sworn in as the US
Climate risk could affect both financial and price stability – BdF’s Dees - Central Banking

1 week ago | centralbanking.com | Daniel Blackburn

On the sidelines of the June Summer Meetings 2025, Central Banking caught up with Stéphane Dees, head of the climate economics unit at the Banque de France. He discussed the implications for financial stability from both transition and physical climate shocks; how the BdF is improving its monitoring of the risks with the European Central Bank and the Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS); and the implications for inflation if the green transition does not remain on track.
Developing AI comes with geopolitical risks, says panel

1 week ago | centralbanking.com | Joasia E. Popowicz

Data is the “eyes and ears” that enables central banks to tell the stories of the economy, a panel chair told the Central Banking Summer Meetings on June 12. The panel – which brought together data architects from central banks in Europe, the Middle East, Asia and the Americas – discussed how to build resilient infrastructure that could incorporate artificial intelligence and quantum capabilities, while mitigating geopolitical risks. “Use of data science techniques requires state-of-the-art IT
Policy must be forceful to anchor expectations, panel hears

2 weeks ago | centralbanking.com | Daniel Blackburn

The need for forceful monetary policy to anchor expectations was among the key lessons of the post-Covid-19 surge in inflation, an official from an advanced economy central bank told the Central Banking Summer Meetings. Speaking on June 11 during a panel on forecasting models, the official said central banks had done “very well” in responding to the surge. “The disinflation process was compatible with a soft landing, and particularly the sacrifice ratio in terms of unemployment,” the official
Central banks use ‘hackathons’ to promote innovation

2 weeks ago | centralbanking.com | Joasia E. Popowicz

When it comes to incorporating artificial intelligence, central bankers need to be curious and run lots of experiments. This was the message from panellists at the innovation and artificial intelligence stream at Central Banking’s Summer Meetings in London today (June 11). Discussing how to cultivate technological innovation – both internally and in their own jurisdiction’s economy – while balancing stability, a participant from a central bank in Africa said “every innovation comes with