Central banks – based in Hong Kong, China, the United Arab Emirates and Thailand – issued over $12 million on the platform, allowing the commercial banks to conduct payment and foreign exchange payment versus payment transactions (PvP), the report said. The pilot was part of BIS’s ongoing Project mBridge, a collaboration between the international financial institution and the central banks of those four nations that is studying CBDCs and their possible role in cross-border payments and multi-CBDC transactions.
Source: https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2022/10/26/foreign-exchange-transactions-take-center-stage-in-new-bis-cbdc-report/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=headlines