BASEL / LONDON (IT BOLTWISE) – The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has appointed Tommaso Mancini-Griffoli as the new head of its Innovation Hub. This appointment signals an increased focus on digital currencies and the integration of blockchain technologies into financial infrastructure. Mancini-Griffoli, known for his work at the IWF, will lead BIS’s innovation projects from March 2026.
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The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has appointed Tommaso Mancini-Griffoli, one of the leading economists in the field of digital money, as the new head of the BIS Innovation Hub. This decision will come into effect in March 2026 and marks a significant step in BIS’s strategic focus on digital currencies and innovative financial technologies. Mancini-Griffoli will be tasked with exploring technological solutions within the central banking community, particularly with regard to central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), tokenized assets and new forms of market infrastructure.
Mancini-Griffoli currently serves as deputy director of the Department of Monetary and Capital Markets at the International Monetary Fund, where he leads work on payments and currencies. He is a prominent proponent of regulated and publicly supported digital monetary models and has warned in the past about the risks of unregulated stablecoins. His appointment comes as the BIS Innovation Hub expands its major projects and strengthens its influence across its global centers.
The BIS Innovation Hub has become a testing ground for blockchain-inspired settlement systems and digital currency prototypes. For the crypto space, this move signals that the BIS could steer digital asset innovation toward regulated tokenized forms of money, a direction that could influence central banks’ assessment of private blockchain infrastructure and stablecoins.
Mancini-Griffoli, who has served as an IMF representative in global policy forums on CBDCs and payments, has frequently argued that the most stable path lies in hybrid or publicly backed arrangements, rather than fully private tokens. In 2020, he stated that a synthetic private-public partnership CBDC had the potential to enable private sector innovation, such as blockchain-backed stablecoins. He advocated the concept of synthetic CBDCs, a model in which private institutions issue digital money fully backed by central bank reserves, thus combining public sector security with private sector innovation.
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