Last November the BIS Innovation Hub revealed it was planning a project with the Swiss National Bank and the World Bank to tokenize promissory notes. Yesterday it provided a few details, including the project’s name, Promissa, and a target deadline of early 2025 for completing the proof of concept.
The IMF will participate as an observer.
Today promissory notes are largely paper based, but the objective isn’t purely to digitize them. Using a distributed ledger will create a single source of truth and provide an overview for all parties. So countries that make financial commitments to the World Bank, the IMF and potentially other institutions can see all their outstanding promissory note commitments in one place. And the World Bank can also have a single view of all the promissory notes.
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