Big Banks, NY Fed’s Innovation Group See Merit in Digital Ledgers for Global Payments

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Banks such as Citi, BNYMellon and HSBC worked with the NewYorkFed's innovation group to experiment with a 'Regulated Liability Network' to use shared digital ledger tech for global payments. And they say it seems to work. jesseahamilton reports

Fitting somewhere in the middle of the debate between central bank digital currencies and private stablecoins, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s New York Innovation Center , which has collaborated on the project since last year, concluded that “the network has the potential to deliver improvements in the processing of wholesale payments due to its ability to synchronize U.S. dollar-denominated payments and facilitate settlement on a near-real time, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week basis.

“From a central banking perspective, the proof of concept was conducive to exploring tokenized regulated deposits and understanding the potential functional benefits of central bank and commercial bank digital money operating together on a shared ledger,” said Per von Zelowitz, director of the NYIC, in a statement.

 

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