DAILY102622
BIS Announces Successful Multi-CBDC Platform Pilot
Following their retail crypto pilot last week, the BIS announced a successful pilot blockchain ledger – dubbed the mBridge Ledger – connecting twenty commercial banks in China, Hong Kong, Thailand, and the UAE via a multi-CBDC common platform. Both domestic and foreign commercial banks are permitted to directly hold and transact in CBDCs on the platform to ensure seamless cross-border payments. To protect monetary sovereignty, the platform allows governments to flexibly control CBDC issuance and redemption, transaction currencies and amounts, and visibility into usage.
With President at His Side, Chopra Sanctions Overdraft, Deposit Fees
President Biden today took aim at junk fees, slamming them in general even as he praised the CFPB’s initiative today sharply to limit “surprise” overdraft and deposit fees. The agency did so by issuing a circular on unanticipated overdraft fee assessment practices and a bulletin on Returned Deposited Item Fee Assessment Practices, again using its non-regulatory tools to enact new policy and set stringent enforcement standards. We will shortly provide clients with in-depth analyses of each release.