BIS Innovation Hub

02 AI-related debt issuance poses emerging risks to financial stability through valuation pressures and liquidity mismatches.

03 Digital innovation

04 Frontier AI systems introduce novel, scalable cyber threats to financial infrastructure that exceed the capabilities of traditional cyberattack methods.

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

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

07 The Bank for International Settlements is recruiting a Senior Solution Architect.

08 Project Nexus will enable instant, low-cost, cross-border retail payments by connecting domestic fast-payment systems.

09 BIS Innovation Hub published working papers on AI-related financial innovation.

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

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

12 Collaboration with the BIS Innovation Hub

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

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

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

16 Project Aperta enables cross-border interconnectivity through open finance interoperability.

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

18 Global statistics are at the heart of international cooperation.

19 Zombie firms in emerging Asia account for 25–30% of listed firms and exhibit significantly higher default risk during monetary tightening.

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

21 SNB and BIS signed an operational agreement on the BIS Innovation Hub Centre in Switzerland.

22 The BIS Innovation Hub is pursuing a more efficient bank resolution regime in the European Banking Union using AI and digital tools.

23 BIS hosts fintech conferences.

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

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

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

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

28 Stablecoins and tokenised deposits have material implications for monetary policy transmission and financial stability.

29 Innovation holds the power to shape Africa's future through intergenerational leadership and economic resilience.

30 FMIs’ increasing reliance on third-party service providers poses material operational and systemic risks to financial stability.

31 Regulation for small banks should be simple, resilient and proportional.

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

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

34 BIS Papers | Bank for International Settlements

35 Global economic pressure points call for policy discipline.

36 Tokenized green bonds can improve sustainable investment.

37 The Bank for International Settlements is hiring a Quantitative Risk Analyst.

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

39 The 13th Banking, Payments and Fintech Forum and EXPO took place with opening remarks by the BIS Innovation Hub.

40 Finance disrupted by AI, per Bank for International Settlements

41 Central banks can innovate in the digital age.

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

43 The BIS Annual Economic Report 2026 provides authoritative analysis on AI’s macroeconomic implications.

44 The digital euro promotes innovation, safeguards sovereignty, and strengthens Europe.

45 Blockchain can provide a verifiable foundation for official statistics through cryptographic signing, decentralized storage, and immutable audit trails.

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

47 Project Spectrum uses generative AI to enhance inflation nowcasting.

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

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

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

51 Only entities subject to prudential supervision — such as banks, licensed payment institutions, and e-money institutions — should be permitted to issue systemic stablecoins.

52 AI adoption in financial markets introduces new sources of systemic risk including model opacity, concentration in AI infrastructure providers, and procyclical feedback loops.

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

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

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

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

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

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

59 Stablecoins alone cannot anchor trust in digital money without complementary public-sector infrastructure and coordination.

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

61 What determines banks' excess demand for reserves?

62 AI presents both progress and peril to financial systems.

63 BIS Innovation Hub work on open finance

64 The path to the next-generation monetary and financial system lies in safeguarding trust in money.

65 Digital innovation—including AI, alternative data, and digital ID—can improve credit access for small firms in emerging market economies, but only when supported by robust institutional, regulatory, and data infrastructure.

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

67 BIS Quarterly Review, September 2026 contains analysis relevant to AI and financial innovation.

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

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

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

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

72 Blockchain can provide verifiable official statistics through cryptographic signing and decentralized storage.

73 BIS Innovation Hub work on cyber security

74 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.

75 AI is driving productivity across the economy.

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

77 Global standard-setting bodies published a toolkit for cyber resilience at FMIs and a discussion paper on FMIs’ reliance on third-party service providers.

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

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