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Banks Hold a Lever Over Stablecoin Adoption, BIS Economists Say
Source material for this Decrypt story contained only a headline and page metadata, so no reliable article could be writ...
Banks Could Slow Stablecoin Growth by Raising Deposit Rates, BIS Paper Finds
A Bank for International Settlements study says small increases in U.S. bank deposit rates predict slower stablecoin gro...
Higher US bank deposit rates slow USDC growth more than USDT, BIS study finds
A BIS analysis shows rising deposit rates are pulling users away from USDC faster than USDT, while exchange rewards add...
BIS: Digital Cash Can Offer Cash-Like Privacy, but Bank Breaches Still Expose Users
BIS says digital cash can match cash privacy, but warns that breaching one bank could reveal that bank's customer data....
BIS Study Shows USDT Growth on Ethereum Did Not Boost Smart Contract Holdings
A Bank for International Settlements paper reveals that while USDT issuance grew on Ethereum in 2024, the share held by...
Saudi Arabia withdraws from China-backed mBridge CBDC project
Saudi Arabia's central bank has exited the mBridge cross-border CBDC platform after completing a proof of concept in May...
BIS research: Bitcoin transfer value estimates vary by up to six times
A new Bank for International Settlements paper finds that standard methods for measuring Bitcoin transfers can produce r...
BIS Study Finds Large Gaps in Bitcoin On-Chain Transaction Data
A Bank for International Settlements (BIS) study reveals that Bitcoin transaction estimates can vary by sixfold due to d...
BIS: AI Reduces Bank Vulnerability Response Time from Weeks to Minutes
Bank for International Settlements warns AI is speeding up cyberattacks, shrinking banks' flaw-fixing window to minutes.
BIS prototype on XRP Ledger shows why institutional use may not boost XRP demand
A BIS working paper details a system using XRP Ledger to verify official statistics, but batching keeps fee burn low eve...