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Media briefing - Project Helvetia: Settling tokenised assets in central bank money

Type
Speech
Subtype
BIS management speech
Date delivered
4 December 2020
Media briefing on Project Helvetia, 3 December 2020.
Video 3 Dec 2020
Project Helvetia: Settling tokenized assets in central bank money

Project Helvetia, a joint proof-of-concept experiment between the Bank for International Settlements' Innovation Hub Swiss Centre, the Swiss National Bank and the financial infrastructure operator SIX Group, successfully shows the feasibility of integrating tokenised digital assets and central bank money.

Benoît Coeuré, Andréa M Maechler, Morten Bech and Thomas Moser host a media briefing on the launch of Project Helvetia: settling tokenised assets in central bank money. Project Helvetia was a multi-phase investigation by the BIS Innovation Hub, the Swiss National Bank (SNB) and the financial infrastructure operator SIX.