{"id":747729,"date":"2026-09-22T02:05:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T23:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/saudi-arabia-exits-china-backed-mbridge-cbdc-project-ft\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T02:05:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T23:05:17","slug":"saudi-arabia-exits-china-backed-mbridge-cbdc-project-ft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/saudi-arabia-exits-china-backed-mbridge-cbdc-project-ft\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia exits China-backed mBridge CBDC project: FT"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Saudi Arabia has left mBridge, a cross-border CBDC platform that has drawn scrutiny from US policymakers, according to the Financial Times.<\/p>\n

Saudi Arabia has withdrawn from mBridge, a China-backed cross-border digital currency project designed to enable direct transactions between central banks, according to the Financial Times.<\/p>\n

SAMA, Saudi Arabia\u2019s central bank, joined mBridge as a full participant<\/a> in June 2024 and ended its participation after completing a proof of concept on May 13, 2025, FT reported<\/a>, citing a statement from the central bank. SAMA said it had planned to end its participation.<\/p>\n

MBridge was established<\/a> in 2021 through a collaboration between the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) Innovation Hub and the central banks of China, Hong Kong, Thailand and the United Arab Emirates, with the aim of making cross-border payments faster and cheaper.<\/p>\n

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Saudi Arabia has left mBridge, a cross-border CBDC platform that has drawn scrutiny from US policymakers, according to the Financial Times. Saudi Arabia has withdrawn from mBridge, a China-backed cross-border digital currency project designed to enable direct transactions between central banks, according to the Financial Times. SAMA, Saudi Arabia\u2019s central bank, joined mBridge as a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-747729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=747729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}