CBDC Broadcast #24 - Project Helvetia III: Settling Tokenized Assets with a Wholesale CBDC

About this Episode

With:

| Thomas Moser (Alternate Member of the Governing Board, Swiss National Bank)

| David Newns (Head of SIX Digital Exchange)

Guests Thomas Moser and David Newns joined FNA to explore the third phase of Project Helvetia, in which the Swiss National Bank and SIX test the introduction of a live CHF wholesale CBDC on a distributed ledger technology (DLT)- based financial market infrastructure.

In this session, we focused on the liquidity management implications of settling tokenized assets in Central Bank money, assessing the impact on liquidity demands and liquidity fragmentation risk before considering the lessons learned from the pilot project so far.

This third phase of Project Helvetia continues pivotal work previously undertaken alongside the Bank for International Settlements. The multi-phase project is a significant endeavour aiming to understand how central banks could offer settlement in central bank money.