The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) – a meta bank for the world’s central banks and facilitator of cross-border payments – has advocated new governance systems that promote owner control of data and transparency over its use. In a report released on Thursday, the BIS argued that market failures mean that restoring de facto control of data to those who generate it has become necessary – along with requiring permission before service providers collect, share, and process it.

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