The retail cross-border payments market is valued at more than $800 billion of transactions per year, and is growing. Despite this, retail cross-border transactions lag domestic ones in terms of cost, speed, access and transparency because of the complex processes they involve. This complexity...

Under the direction of the Asian Consultative Council of the BIS at its February 2019 meeting, the BIS Representative Office for Asia and the Pacific set up a Working Group of regional central banks to examine their policy frameworks, focusing on capital flows, exchange rates, and the joint use...

Project Meridian FX is an experiment led by the BIS Innovation Hub's London and Eurosystem Centres together with the Bank of England, Bank of France, Deutsche Bundesbank, Bank of Italy and European Central Bank. It builds on the original Project Meridian by focusing on foreign exchange (FX)...