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BIS’ mBridge shows CBDCs enhance cross-border payment efficiency: HKMA


The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA), the city’s de facto central bank, has published a report of the mBridge central bank digital currency (CBDC) pilot project with three other central banks and the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), which examined cross-border payment transactions via CBDCs.

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Fast facts

  • The pilot successfully executed real-value cross-border transactions involving four currencies and 20 commercial bank participants across four jurisdictions, the HKMA said in a statement shared with Forkast on Wednesday.
  • The mBridge, or mCBDC, is a collaborative CBDC project between the HKMA and the central banks of Thailand, China, the United Arab Emirates and the BIS to enhance multi-currency cross-border payments.
  • Over the course of six weeks in August and September, the participating commercial banks conducted payment and foreign exchange transactions worth over US$22 million on behalf of their corporate clients using the CBDCs issued on the mBridge platform, according to the report.
  • Tayo Tunyathon Koonprasert, a senior specialist of Bank of Thailand, wrote in a Wednesday social media post that the project’s findings demonstrated that it can bring down cross-border transfer times from three to five days to just several seconds.
  • The HKMA and the Bank of Thailand said the team will keep working to improve existing functionalities and add new features to the platform.
  • In September, the HKMA said it would likely take at least two or three years to build the system for the city’s wholesale CBDC.

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