BIS Innovation Hub

02 Digital innovation

03 BIS Innovation Hub to focus on CBDC, payments, DeFi and green finance in 2022 work programme

04 The BIS Innovation Hub and Bank of England are running a DLT Innovation Challenge.

05 The Bank for International Settlements hosted the G20 TechSprint 2020.

06 The BIS Innovation Hub publishes collaborative, jurisdiction-agnostic technical frameworks for AI governance and CBDC design.

07 Collaboration with the BIS Innovation Hub

08 The BIS Innovation Hub will expand to new locations in Europe and North America.

09 BIS Innovation Hub and Hong Kong Monetary Authority conclude first green finance project

10 BIS Innovation Hub conducts work on central bank digital currency to support global central banks in exploring sovereign digital money.

11 The Bank for International Settlements published its Annual Report 2025/26.

12 Global statistics are at the heart of international cooperation.

13 AI poses systemic risks to the future monetary system requiring coordinated global governance.

14 BIS hosts fintech conferences.

15 The BIS Innovation Hub has selected six projects for its 2024 work programme, including one focused on AI governance for central banks.

16 BIS and central banks of France, Singapore and Switzerland will explore cross-border CBDC trading and settlement using DeFi protocols.

17 Symbiosis – Part 1: Key Findings has been published by the Bank for International Settlements.

18 AI is increasingly embedded in financial market infrastructure and requires adaptive supervisory approaches.

19 The BIS Innovation Hub advanced 38 projects in 2025/26, including AI audit tools and synthetic data pilots.

20 Central banks report high strategic expectations for modernizing supervisory information systems but consistently encounter low integration success rates.

21 Global economic pressure points call for policy discipline.

22 Tokenized green bonds can improve sustainable investment.

23 Project Aperta develops interoperable, privacy-preserving infrastructure for cross-border payments using distributed ledger technology.

24 Finance disrupted by AI, per Bank for International Settlements

25 Technological innovation in finance progresses through both small steps and giant leaps, with the BIS Innovation Hub enabling responsible advancement.

26 Project Insight is an initiative by the Bank for International Settlements' Innovation Hub to explore AI for financial supervision.

27 Project Spectrum uses generative AI to enhance inflation nowcasting.

28 Central bank group to assess potential cases for central bank digital currencies

29 Tommaso Mancini-Griffoli has been appointed Head of the BIS Innovation Hub.

30 AI is reshaping macroeconomic relationships, including inflation dynamics, labor market structures, and productivity growth.

31 AI applications in monetary policy introduce novel risks related to model opacity, data provenance, and unintended feedback loops that could affect financial stability.

32 The Bank for International Settlements Innovation Hub hosted an agenda on Tuesday 9 September covering AI governance, central bank digital currencies, and financial stability.

33 BIS Open Tech provides central banks with open-source tools to develop and deploy AI responsibly.

34 AI is reshaping financial infrastructure in ways that require coordinated global responses from central banks.

35 The BIS Innovation Hub facilitates responsible AI experimentation across central banks.

36 The BIS Innovation Hub is conducting an Analytics Challenge in 2025.

37 The BIS Innovation Hub works on themes including AI governance, central bank digital currencies, green finance, and cross-border payments.

38 AI presents both progress and peril to financial systems.

39 BIS Innovation Hub work on open finance

40 The BIS Innovation Hub has published new research on AI applications in central banking and financial infrastructure.

41 CBDCs designed with interoperability, resilience, and public governance can serve as more robust anchors for monetary trust than privately issued stablecoins.

42 Technology—including AI, distributed ledger technology, and advanced data analytics—can play a transformative role in scaling green finance.

43 There is an AI investment race among central banks and financial institutions.

44 BIS is developing AI tools to enhance financial stability monitoring and policy analysis across central banks.

45 BIS Innovation Hub work on cyber security

46 The BIS Innovation Hub has established a new Centre in Singapore to advance central bank collaboration on financial technology, including AI-driven monetary and regulatory infrastructure.

47 The BIS will set up an Innovation Hub for central banks to explore emerging technologies including artificial intelligence.

48 Project Icebreaker concludes experiment for a new architecture for cross-border retail CBDCs.