Project Agorá, launched in April 2024 by the BIS Innovation Hub, is its largest public-private collaboration, testing a multi-currency unified ledger for wholesale cross-border payments. It builds on the BIS's "unified ledger" concept, exploring how tokenization and programmability can modernize correspondent banking without replacing the two-tier monetary system (commercial banks and central banks).
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Project Agorá (Greek for “marketplace”) is a major BIS Innovation Hub initiative launched in April 2024. It is a public-private collaboration exploring the tokenization of wholesale central bank money (wCBDC or tokenized reserves) and commercial bank deposits on a multi-currency unified ledger—a programmable platform—to improve wholesale cross-border payments while preserving the two-tier monetary system (central…
Alors que les indices flambent, la volatilité stagne et les médias célèbrent un "atterrissage en douceur", une convergence systémique de 7 vecteurs critiques se prépare en silence.
Notre analyse, validée par des modèles quantitatifs croisés (Monte Carlo, VAR, modélisation de liquidité) et appuyée sur des données en temps réel (RRP, positions CFTC, spreads SOFR) révèle…
The amplification mechanism relies on the scissors effect between accommodative US monetary policy (Fed rate cuts of -25 to -50 bps towards 2026) and a tightening by the Bank of Japan (+25 to +75 bps). This divergence, exacerbated by a 10x leverage for hedge funds, leads to a compression of the carry trade spread, making…
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