Jackson Hole and G20 Chart Path to 24/7 Payments and AI

The Jackson Hole economic symposium and Group of 20 meetings are putting cross-border payment links higher on the financial-policy agenda. Today’s infrastructure remains constrained by time zones, business days and differences among national settlement systems. Allowing central-bank money to settle around the clock could shorten transaction times, reduce liquidity demands and lower operating costs for companies engaged in international trade.

The latest discussions centered on connecting domestic payment networks with central-bank settlement available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Experts also examined how tokenized finance and artificial intelligence could support transaction verification, risk controls and automated processing. The report disclosed no common launch date or investment figure, leaving governments and central banks to align technical, regulatory and governance standards before the proposed infrastructure can operate at scale.