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Project Pine Explained: How New York Fed and BIS Could Run Monetary Policy as Software

Project Pine Explained: How New York Fed and BIS Could Run Monetary Policy as Software

Project Pine is a research prototype built by the New York Fed’s Innovation Center and the BIS Innovation Hub Swiss Centre, published on 14 May 2025. It asks one question: if bank money and securities move onto tokenized ledgers, can a central bank still do its job? The prototype says yes, using smart contracts to […]

The SWIFT Delay Trap: Why Postponing the ISO 20022 Address Deadline Created a $500M+ Sunk-Cost Problem for Banks

The SWIFT Delay Trap – Why Postponing the ISO 20022 Address Deadline Created a $500M+ Sunk-Cost Problem for Banks

SWIFT has pulled back from one of the biggest payment-messaging deadlines in a decade. Facing data showing that roughly 61% of cross-border payment messages in April 2026 still carried unstructured, free-text addresses, SWIFT agreed to a community request to defer the November 14, 2026 cutoff that would have required fully structured ISO 20022 address data […]

CIPS Hits 1,865 Members, But Won’t Say Who They Are

CIPS Hits 1,865 Members, But Won’t Say Who They Are

China’s Cross-Border Interbank Payment System now counts 1,865 member institutions in 133 countries. It will tell you how many sit in Africa, Europe or Oceania, down to the last bank. It will not tell you who they are. CIPS Participants Announcement No. 119, released on 13 October 2026, reports 214 direct participants and 1,651 indirect […]

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