BIS releases unified-ledger proposal for cross-border, tokenized asset transactions By Cointelegraph

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The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has released a chapter of its annual report early. That chapter, on the future of the monetary system, discusses “a new type of financial market infrastructure — a unified ledger.” The chapter was published June 20, one day after the International Monetary Fund (IMF) released a paper describing its “single ledger” cross-border payments concept.

The BIS proposal harnesses central bank digital currency and tokenized assets into “a new type of financial market infrastructure” — that is, the unified ledger, which would be powered by application programming interfaces (APIs). The authors of the proposal critiqued existing financial technology. They said: