A Multi-Currency Exchange and Contracting Platform

By Tobias Adrian, Federico Grinberg, Tommaso Mancini Griffoli, Robert M. Townsend, Nicolas Zhang

November 4, 2022

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Tobias Adrian, Federico Grinberg, Tommaso Mancini Griffoli, Robert M. Townsend, and Nicolas Zhang. A Multi-Currency Exchange and Contracting Platform, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2022) accessed December 21, 2024

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Summary

Cross-border payments can be slow, expensive, and risky. They are intermediated by counterparties in different jurisdictions which rely on costly trusted relationships to offset the lack of a common settlement asset as well as common rules and governance. In this paper, we present a vision for a multilateral platform that could improve cross-border payments, as well as related foreign exchange transactions, risk sharing, and more generally, financial contracting. The approach is to leverage technological innovations for public policy objectives. A common ledger, smart contracts, and encryption offer significant gains to market efficiency, completeness, and access, as well as to transparency, transaction and compliance costs, and safety. This paper is a first step aiming to stimulate further work in this space.

Subject: Currencies, Currency markets, Financial markets, Financial statements, Foreign exchange, Money, Public financial management (PFM), Smart contracts, Technology

Keywords: CBDC, Cross-border payment, Cross-border payments, Currencies, Currency markets, Digital money, Encryption, Exchange-market illiquidity, Financial statements, Global, Hedging risk, Market design, Multilateral platforms, Programmability, Risk sharing, Smart contracts

Publication Details

Pages:

57
Volume:

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DOI:

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Series:

Working Paper No. 2022/217
Stock No:

WPIEA2022217
ISBN:

9798400224188
ISSN:

1018-5941

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