CBDC: The BIS has finished its international settlement test

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In the last few years, digital currencies have become one of the things that most countries want to do. Some countries have made a lot of progress, but others are still in the testing phase. If you want to try out a new shared CBDC platform, the Bank's innovation arm has finished a pilot test of it. It says that the test was done by four financial institutions, including South Africa.

Because BIS tried the CBDC, it worked out well for them

The goal of the CBDC trial was to try out different digital currencies on the same platform at the top institutions. Test run: CBDC was made known to people back in September of 2013. A report on how it was done was also made public today.

The report said that the banks could use a platform to trade CBDCs from different financial institutions with each other. Before making prototypes for testing, the developers thought about a lot of things. One of the things that was looked at was how to get paid from different countries. It also talked about how to help the payment network work better in different places. I can say for sure that a multi-currency project would work because of how well the project worked.

CBDC's success will be pushed by new technology

The series of tests also found that the success of the digital currency was based on how it was made, as well. Regarding that, the developers thought about how accessible the currency was when they looked at the governance and the boundary. The developers said that the project showed that the currencies could trust each other and work together. Andrew McCormack, the head of the company's innovation arm, said that most of the company's successes were made possible by new technology.

Also, he said that it would help the future of global platforms a lot if more people used these kinds of platforms. BIS came up with a new way to do things, but France, Switzerland, and other European countries were also working on a way to do things across most of the continent. A digital currency could be made by other countries if this is possible. This could open the door to making one in other countries. About 90 countries are now working on their own digital currenvy, which adds to the story that it will be a success all over the world.

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