Payments & Liquidity

BIS Bulletin 119 - Enhancing Cross-Border Payments (Dec 2025)

BIS Bulletin 119 examines how to improve cross-border payments by addressing frictions in speed, cost, transparency and access. It highlights coordinated policy, standards and infrastructure changes needed to make international payments more efficient and resilient.

Topics: cross-border, payments, bis, standards

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