BIS
Agustin Carstens: The BIS General Manager Who Called Crypto 'A Ponzi Scheme' — and Built CBDC Infrastructure
BIS General Manager Agustin Carstens has been the most vocal senior central banker calling out crypto's fundamental flaws — while simultaneously running the world's most active institutional CBDC research and experimentation programme.
BIS (Bank for International Settlements)
The BIS Innovation Hub's CBDC research including Projects mBridge and Nexus, Basel Committee crypto capital rules, and BIS's role as the central bank of central banks.
BIS and Tokenization: The Central Bankers' Bank Shapes Digital Finance Standards
The Bank for International Settlements — through its research, working groups, and innovation projects — is the most influential institution in shaping how central banks think about tokenization, CBDCs, and digital finance infrastructure.
CPMI (Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures)
The BIS committee that sets global standards for payment system safety, cross-border payment efficiency, and tokenized settlement infrastructure.
CPMI and Cross-Border Payments: How the BIS Committee Is Using Tokenization to Fix International Transfers
The Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures is using its G20 cross-border payments mandate to promote tokenization as a solution to expensive, slow international money transfers — with significant policy implications.
Multi-Currency CBDC: Project mBridge, Nexus, and the Race to Build Cross-Border Digital Money Infrastructure
Multiple CBDC interoperability projects — mBridge (China/UAE/HK/Thailand), Nexus, Dunbar — are building the infrastructure for central bank digital currencies to move across borders. The geopolitics are as important as the technology.
Project Guardian: How MAS and BIS Built the World's Most Important Tokenization Experiment
Project Guardian — the collaboration between MAS Singapore and BIS — tested institutional tokenization of bonds, foreign exchange, and fund units with major global banks. The policy implications of its findings are reshaping how regulators think about tokenized finance.