The interbank messaging company SWIFT is moving forward on a project to build a standardized global interlinking Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) system.
The project for CBDC cross-border payments involved 18 central and commercial banks from around the world, including the Banque de France, Royal Bank of Canada, Société Générale, HSBC, Deutsche Bundesbank, NatWest, UBS, France’s BNP Paribas, Italy’s Intesa Sanpaolo, the UL’s Standard Chartered (STAN), and the Monetary Authority of Singapore. “While interest in CBDCs is growing, so is the risk of fragmentation as a widening range of technologies and standards is being experimented with,” Lewis Sun, global head of domestic and emerging payments at HSBC, said in a statement , adding that the SWIFT project may lead to “faster, cheaper and more secure cross-border payments.”
Naturally, the banks are eager to see SWIFT’s CBDC project through.
“The central and commercial banks involved in the project saw ‘clear potential and […]
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