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BIS: Project Agorá shows tokenisation can improve wholesale cross-border payments; moving to real-value testing
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… Project Agorá prototype demonstrates how tokenisation and programmable technologies can address long-standing inefficiencies in wholesale cross-border payments at scale, while preserving the safety and integrity of settlement in central bank reserves. The project has shown the possibility of completing atomic settlement of wholesale cross-border transactions using tokenised central bank reserves and tokenised commercial bank deposits. The findings indicate this is achievable securely and with finality across currencies and jurisdictions. The project intends to advance testing, including conducting real-value transactions involving certain currencies and participants. The Bank of …
Change log (10)
- 2026-10-23 Newsroom 2026-10-23 eve: +MAS/BNM/BOT BLOOM cross-border digital money (Tier 1, MAS media release); bank-negara-malaysia, bank-of-thailand entities; verify snap (b20c97d)
- 2026-10-23 Newsroom 2026-10-23 PM: +Riksbank letter to Riksdag Finance Committee on digital krona (PDF, Tier 1); riksbank entity; CBDC tracker entry; verify snapshots, pag (240394a)
- 2026-10-23 Tracker: HSBC RedCoin commercial status -> Live (23 Oct 2026, HSBC release); +SoFi Earn (SOFIE) initiative, SoFi institution, 2 sources; vfetch: one 5s retry on (cebc8d1)
- 2026-10-23 Newsroom 2026-10-23: +HSBC RedCoin live on PayMe (HKMA-licensed HKD stablecoin), +SoFi Earn (SOFIE) consumer tokenized deposit (via Nasdaq/Business Wire; SoFi I (62c1ed5)
- 2026-10-23 Verify: shared vfetch (PDF via pdftotext, retry, snapshot fallback for EUR-Lex/ESMA/ECB transient blocks, real mismatches still fail), verify-snapshots.json; de (a65ba64)
- 2026-10-23 AI/agent discoverability: llms.txt + llms-full.txt, AI-crawler robots rules, open data /api/{items,tracker,regulation}.json (CC BY 4.0) + Dataset JSON-LD on /da (e14054d)
- 2026-10-23 Audit ledger 2026-10-22, a11y fixes (key-facts list, tracker target size), screenshots b2-* (644d97b)
- 2026-10-23 P1/P2: homepage What-changed + tracker snapshot, regulatory timeline date-status labels/event-type filter/shareable URLs, methodology status & evidence definiti (95a103a)
- 2026-10-22 Phase 1 positioning: intelligence platform for banks entering digital assets (941ceee)
- 2026-10-22 Global coverage upgrade: daily pipeline + page watchers, 27 new verified items, per-item OG images, /data, new trackers (CBDC, MiCA CASP, bank services), entiti (7f6aa9a)
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“The project has shown the possibility of completing atomic settlement of wholesale cross-border transactions using tokenised central bank reserves and tokenised commercial bank deposits.”
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