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The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) and Bank Indonesia, under the Indonesian G20 Presidency, today announced the shortlisted finalists for the G20 TechSprint challenge on central bank digital currencies (CBDCs).

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<li>Twenty-one teams have been shortlisted, out of almost 100 teams worldwide.</li>
<li>Competition attracted proposals from a diverse range of competing organisations and teams.</li>
<li>Winners to be announced in October ahead of G20 Summit.</li>
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The BIS Innovation Hub Singapore Centre and the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) have developed a new prototype platform that integrates regulatory data with articles and news to help identify potential risks to individual banks and the banking system.

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<li><span>New prototype ‘Project Ellipse’ enables quick access to early warning indicators, analytics, and prudential metrics for banking supervision.</span></li>
<li><span>The Ellipse prototype is the first to be published on <a class="mas-link" target="_blank" href="https://www.bis.org/innovation/bis_open_tech.htm"><span class="mas-link__text">BIS Op...