This report by the Consultative Group on Innovation and the Digital Economy (CGIDE) discusses four main processes in a retail central bank digital currency (CBDC) architecture. These are: i) enrolling new users, ii) creating CBDC (cash-in), iii) destroying CBDC (cash-out) and iv) intra-ledger...

Project mBridge is a collaboration between the BIS Innovation Hub Hong Kong Centre, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, the Bank of Thailand, the Digital Currency Institute of the People's Bank of China and the Central Bank of the United Arab Emirates. After experimenting with different technology...

"For central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) to improve cross-border payments, central banks must make fundamental decisions on foreign access and how CBDCs connect across jurisdictions. These decisions must be made at an early stage and international cooperation and coordination are...