14 central and commercial banks, including Banque de France, the Deutsche Bundesbank, HSBC, Intesa Sanpaolo, NatWest, SMBC, Standard Chartered, UBS and Wells Fargo, are now collaborating in a testing environment to accelerate the path to full scale deployment.
The cooperative, which connects more than 11,500 financial institutions and 4 billion accounts across 200 countries and territories, was created to bridge geographies, technologies and currencies.
Also SWIFT recently launched Proof-of-Concept with Chainlink.
This is much in line with previous post Why CBDCs May Fail and how international organizations like SWIFT trying to out-compete each other while USD undermines its global status.
It successfully served as a single access point to various tokenised networks and showed its infrastructure could be used to create, transfer and redeem tokens and update balances between multiple client wallets, as well as provide interoperability between different tokenisation platforms and existing account-based infrastructure.
SWIFT and BIS as well wants to be sort of "market-maker" or exchange for all these gov tokens.
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