New York Innovation Center

The New York Innovation Center (NYIC) bridges the worlds of finance, technology, and innovation. Through technical research, experimentation, and prototyping, our team generates insights into high-value central bank-related opportunities, enabling stakeholders and the central bank community to enhance the functioning of the global financial system.

Housed within the New York Fed, we collaborate with the Federal Reserve System, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) Innovation Hub, academia, and the private sector.

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Facilitating Wholesale Digital Asset Settlement
PROJECT | July 6, 2023
The New York Innovation Center, in collaboration with members of the U.S. financial services sector, participated in a research study that explored the feasibility of distributed ledger technology to facilitate safe and efficient wholesale payments.
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Project Cedar: Improving Cross-Border Payments With Distributed Ledger Technology
PROJECT | May 18, 2023
Project Cedar Phase II x Ubin+ examined whether distributed ledger technology could be used to improve the efficiency of cross-border payments and settlements involving multiple currencies. This research experiment was a partnership between NYIC and the Monetary Authority of Singapore.
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Opportunity Areas define our focus
The NYIC discovers high-value learning opportunities in six areas:
Future of Money
Exploring the potential for digital currencies to improve payments performance.

Financial Market Infrastructures
Advancing payments, clearing, settlement, and trading systems that move money and other financial assets between banks and non-bank financial institutions.
Open Finance
Understanding how bank and non-bank financial institutions leverage new business and operating models such as open banking, banking as a service, and decentralized finance.
Supervisory and Regulatory Technology
Using artificial intelligence, advanced data and analytics, and new operating models to support the banking community and regulators in promoting a safe, sound, and stable financial system.
Cyber Risk
Exploring opportunities to reduce cyber risk and mitigate related costs.
Climate Risk
Generating climate risk insights for the central bank community.
New York Innovation Center Related News
Research Study Examines Feasibility of Theoretical Payments System Designed to Facilitate and Settle Digital Asset Transactions
Press Release | July 6, 2023
NEW YORK – The Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s New York Innovation Center (NYIC), in collaboration with members of the U.S. financial services sector, published the findings of a proof of concept (PoC) that explored the feasibility of an interoperable network for wholesale payments operating on a shared multi-entity distributed ledger.
New York Fed and Monetary Authority of Singapore Publish Results of Joint Wholesale Cross-Border Payments Research Study
Press Release | May 18, 2023
NEW YORK, SINGAPORE – The Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s New York Innovation Center and the Monetary Authority of Singapore today published a research report detailing the results of the joint Project Cedar Phase II x Ubin+ experiment, which examined whether distributed ledger technology could be used to improve the efficiency of cross-border wholesale payments and settlements involving multiple currencies.
New York Innovation Center to Explore Feasibility of Theoretical Payments System Designed to Facilitate and Settle Digital Asset Transactions
Press Release | November 15, 2022
NEW YORK – The Federal Reserve Bank of New York today announced that its New York Innovation Center (NYIC) proof-of-concept project to explore the feasibility of an interoperable network of central bank wholesale digital money and commercial bank digital money operating on a shared ledger.
New York Fed and Monetary Authority of Singapore Collaborate to Explore Potential Enhancements to Cross-Border Payments Using Wholesale CBDCs
Press Release | November 10, 2022
NEW YORK, SINGAPORE—The Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s New York Innovation Center (NYIC) and the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) today announced Project Cedar Phase II x Ubin+, a joint experiment to investigate how wholesale central bank digital currencies (wCBDCs) could improve the efficiency of cross-border wholesale payments involving multiple currencies.
New York Fed Announces Phase I Results of the New York Innovation Center’s Project Cedar
Press Release | November 4, 2022
NEW YORK – The Federal Reserve Bank of New York today issued a report on the Phase I results of Project Cedar, the inaugural project of its New York Innovation Center (NYIC). Project Cedar is a multiphase research effort to develop a technical framework for a theoretical wholesale central bank digital currency (wCBDC) in the Federal Reserve context through exploration of fundamental design choices and modular technical features.
Advances in Digital Currency Experimentation
Speech | November 4, 2022
At the Singapore FinTech Festival, Michelle Neal, head of the New York Fed Markets Group, discussed the landscape of digital assets and some of the ways that the Federal Reserve System is engaging in research and experimentation that support ongoing innovation.
Introducing the New York Innovation Center
Event | November 29, 2021
The New York Fed hosted a virtual event to launch the New York Innovation Center, a strategic partnership with the Bank for International Settlements Innovation Hub. At this event, senior leaders from the New York Fed, the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, the BIS, and the private sector shared their perspectives on the importance of innovation for the central bank community.
New York Fed Launches the New York Innovation Center to Support Financial Technology Innovation in Central Banking
Press Release | November 29, 2021
NEW YORK—The Federal Reserve Bank of New York today launched the New York Innovation Center (NYIC), to advance a strategic partnership with the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) Innovation Hub. As part of the New York Fed, the NYIC is collaborating with the Federal Reserve System, the BIS Innovation Hub, and public and private sector experts to validate, design, build, and launch new financial technology products and services for the central bank community.
New York Fed Names Per von Zelowitz as Director of the New York Innovation Center
Press Release | July 1, 2021
NEW YORK—The Federal Reserve Bank of New York today announced that Per von Zelowitz has been named the director of the New York Innovation Center effective July 19, 2021.
BIS Innovation Hub to Expand to New Locations in Europe and North America
Press Release | June 30, 2020
The Board of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) today announced the expansion of the BIS Innovation Hub with the establishment of new Hub centres across Europe and in North America in cooperation with member central banks.
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