On August 11, 2026, RBI Governor Sanjay Malhotra confirmed that BRICS members are actively exploring links between their instant payment systems (FPS) and Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC). The goal is to cut costs and settlement times for cross-border retail and trade payments. Discussions remain exploratory; India, as 2026 chair, hosted the summit and pushed…
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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). …