Project Dunbar
Project Dunbar proved that financial institutions could use CBDCs issued by participating central banks to transact directly with each other on a shared platform. This has the potential to reduce reliance on intermediaries and, correspondingly, the costs and time taken to process cross-border transactions. The project identified three critical questions: which entities should be allowed to hold and transact with CBDCs issued on the platform? How could the flow of cross-border payments be simplified while respecting regulatory differences across jurisdictions? What governance arrangements could give countries sufficient comfort to share critical national infrastructure such as a payments system? The project proposed practical solutions for addressing these issues, which were validated through the development of prototypes that demonstrated the technical viability of shared multi-CBDC platforms for international settlements.
The project is a collaboration between the BIS Innovation Hub Singapore Centre, the Reserve Bank of Australia, Bank Negara Malaysia, the Monetary Authority of Singapore and the South African Reserve Bank.
Related Publications
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Monographs/Information PapersPublished Date: 26 September 2023
Working Paper on Accelerating the Early Retirement of Coal-Fired Power Plants through Carbon Credits
MAS, together with McKinsey & Company, launched a working paper which sets out how high-integrity carbon credits can be utilised as a complementary financing instrument to accelerate and scale the early retirement of coal-fired power plants (CFPPs) and identifies what is needed to develop a high-quality market for such credits.
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Monographs/Information PapersPublished Date: 19 September 2023
MAS Enforcement Report 2022/2023
The MAS Enforcement Report sets out the enforcement actions taken by MAS, as well as SFA and FAA cases investigated under MAS-CAD Joint Investigation Arrangement, for the period of 1 January 2022 to 30 June 2023. The report also gives an update on the progress of MAS' enforcement priorities for 2022/2023 and outlines MAS’ key enforcement priorities for 2023/2024.
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Monographs/Information PapersPublished Date: 26 June 2023
Project Guardian - Open and Interoperable Networks
This report highlights one of the foundational principles of Project Guardian – the establishment of open and interoperable networks. A framework is introduced for understanding the design options to enable the trading of digital assets across networks and liquidity pools. This framework considers the core principles of...