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BIS PROJECT DEMONSTRATES AUTOMATED CROSS-BORDER TRANSACTION COMPLIANCE’,.
Project Mandala uses zero-knowledge proofs to complete compliance checks across different jurisdictions.
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) and its central bank partners have shown through Project Mandala that regulatory compliance can be embedded into cross-border transaction protocols.
The project is a collaboration involving central banks worldwide, including the BIS Innovation Hub Singapore Centre, the Reserve Bank of Australia, the Bank of Korea, Bank Negara Malaysia and the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS).
On Oct. 28, the BIS updated its page for Project Mandala, highlighting that the project has reached its proof-of-concept stage.
The project, which seeks to automate compliance for cross-border transactions, is one of the BIS’ key projects for 2024. On Jan. 23, the BIS included Project Mandala in its work program.
The project also aligns with the G20 priority actions for enhancing cross-border payments.
Automated compliance checks in cross-border transactions
In an explainer video, the BIS detailed that, during the proof-of-concept phase of Project Mandala, all participant institutions, including commercial banks, central banks and other regulated financial entities, will operate a Mandala node within their systems.
Participants will interact through a peer-to-peer messaging system, which will help them obtain relevant policies applicable to transactions. The system will then transmit the necessary data to generate proof of compliance and manage any other information needed for automated compliance checks.
Within the Mandala system, rules across jurisdictions are stored in a repository and distributed across relevant parties. The data is applied against consumer transaction data to ensure that cross-border transactions are compliant.
How Project Mandala would streamline cross-border transactions. Source: BIS
The system implements zero-knowledge proofs to complete transaction compliance checks privately. ZK-proofs allow a prover to convince a verifier that a particular claim is true without revealing the details of the claims.
BIS “optimistic” about early results
In an announcement, Maha El Dimachki, head of the BIS Innovation Hub Singapore Centre, said that the central bank is optimistic about the potential of Project Mandala’s early results to enhance cross-border payments.
The official said that Mandala is “pioneering the compliance-by-design approach to improve cross-border payments without compromising privacy or the integrity of regulatory checks.”
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Source: CoinTelegraph
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HONG KONG PARTNERS CENTRAL BANKS OF BRAZIL, THAILAND FOR TOKENIZATION. TO OFFER DIGITAL BOND GRANTS
Today the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) announced collaborations with the central banks of Brazil and Thailand for cross border tokenization transactions, including atomic settlement of digital asset transactions (delivery versus payment / DvP) and wholesale CBDC (payment versus payment / PvP). Additionally, the HKMA plans to provide grants of up to HK$2.5 million for digital bond issuances to promote Hong Kong as a tokenization venue.
Hong Kong has previously issued two tokenized government green bond issuances, one tokenized (so the primary issuance was conventional) the other natively digital. The second one was worth more than US$750 million across multiple currencies and was the largest digital bond at the time. It has since been eclipsed by two KfW issuances.
As part of Hong Kong’s push to promote the digital asset ecosystem, it soon plans to publish guidelines for a new Digital Bond Grant Scheme that will offer a maximum grant of HK2.5 million for each eligible issuance.
Cross border collaborations
Given Brazil’s hugely successful launch of its Pix real time payment system, many are eagerly watching the progress of DREX, the Banco Central do Brasil’s wholesale CBDC and tokenization project. DREX recently announced the 13 themes to be trialed and re-opened applications for participants.
Now DREX and Hong Kong’s Project Ensemble tokenization project will trial cross border transactions, including for trade finance and carbon credits.
Previously, Hong Kong conducted a trial with the Banque de France.
HKMA unveiled a similar collaboration with the Bank of Thailand, with whom it previously partnered for CBDC in Project Inthanon-LionRock. That initiative expanded to mBridge, the cross border CBDC project that has reached the minimum viable project stage.
The Thai collaboration will involve Thailand’s Project San, an internal experiment that is testing a tokenization ecosystem. This includes wholesale settlement, Ethereum-compatible ledgers for tokenized deposits and digital assets, plus an interoperability mechanism.
HKMA emphasized the interoperability work, specifically how to enable the interoperability of separate distributed financial market infrastructures (dFMIs).
For the interoperability aspect, the HKMA is also a new associate member of the Linux Foundation (LF) Decentralized Trust (an evolution of Hyperledger), joining seven other central bank members that are collaborating on the technical requirements for central bank digital currencies (CBDC).
Project Ensemble Sandbox update
Additionally, the HKMA provided an update on its Project Ensemble Sandbox for wholesale CBDC, tokenized deposits and tokenization. It previously outlined some of the planned use cases, and today disclosed which ones have completed. JP Morgan has joined the sandbox alongside two technology firms, R3 and Tencent affiliate, WeBank Technology Services.
It added a new use case for tokenized or digital funds involving China Construction Bank (Asia), Fubon Bank (Hong Kong), JETCO and OSL Digital Securities.
These announcements were part of the Hong Kong Fintech Week. This morning, keynotes by the Treasury, Securities and Futures Commission and HKMA involved sharing other updates on stablecoins and cryptocurrency.
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Source: Ledger Insights
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