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    Home » Sections » Fintech » South Africa participates in major digital currencies experiment

    South Africa participates in major digital currencies experiment

    By Staff Reporter22 March 2022
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    The South African Reserve Bank and its counterparts in Australia, Malaysia and Singapore have, together with the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), have developed an experimental platform for settling multiple central bank digital currencies, or CBDCs, on an international basis.

    Central banks’ answer to the cryptocurrency world, CBDCs promise to make international settlements easier and cheaper.

    The banks involved in Project Dunbar, as the platform is known, has developed two prototypes for a shared platform that could allow settlements using digital currencies issued by multiple central banks.

    The project identified challenges of implementing a multi-CBDC platform shared across central banks

    “The platform was designed to facilitate direct cross-border transactions between financial institutions in different currencies, with the potential to cut costs and increase speed,” the Banks said in a joint statement on Tuesday.

    “The project identified challenges of implementing a multi-CBDC platform shared across central banks and proposes practical design solutions to address them.”

    Led by BIS Innovation Hub’s Singapore Centre, Project Dunbar proved that financial institutions could use CBDCs issued by participating central banks to transact directly with each other on a shared platform.

    “This has the potential to reduce reliance on intermediaries and, correspondingly, the costs and time taken to process cross-border transactions,” the Banks said.

    Workstreams

    The project was organised along three workstreams: one focusing on high-level functional requirements and design, and two concurrent technical streams that developed prototypes on different technological platforms (Corda and Partior).

    “The project identified three critical questions: which entities should be allowed to hold and transact with CBDCs issued on the platform? How could the flow of cross-border payments be simplified while respecting regulatory differences across jurisdictions? What governance arrangements could give countries sufficient comfort to share critical national infrastructure such as a payments system?”

    “The project proposed practical solutions for addressing these issues, which were validated through the development of prototypes that demonstrated the technical viability of shared multi-CBDC platforms for international settlements.”

    “A common platform is the most efficient model for payments connectivity but is also the most challenging to achieve. Project Dunbar demonstrated that key concerns of trust and shared control can be addressed through governance mechanisms enforced by robust technological means, laying the foundation for the development of future global and regional platforms,” said Andrew McCormack, head of the BIS Innovation Hub Centre in Singapore in the statement.

    The project’s findings also affirmed that any such arrangement should be subject to the governance deemed appropriate by central bank participants, including allowing them to retain control of the application of rules on a jurisdictional and currency level.

    “Project Dunbar highlights the possibilities of using multiple CBDCs issued on a shared platform for international settlement. While many unknowns remain, and a number of areas still require further investigation, it is only through … journeying together that we can meaningfully contribute to the G20 road map for enhancing cross-border payments,” said Rashad Cassim, deputy governor at South African Reserve Bank.  – © 2022 NewsCentral Media

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