International Settlements Bank Charter — DBIS Tripartite Sovereign Body

---
guosmmDocumentId: GUOSMM-C-2026-001
title: "International Settlements Bank Charter — DBIS Tripartite Sovereign Body"
language: en
publishedAt: 2026-06-30T12:00:00Z
effectiveAt: 2026-06-13T00:00:00Z
signingAuthority: Sovereign Military Order of Malta
republicationVersion: 2
---

# GAZZETTA UFFICIALE DELL'ORDINE SOVRANO MILITARE DI MALTA
# OFFICIAL GAZETTE OF THE SOVEREIGN MILITARY ORDER OF MALTA (GUOSMM)

| Field | Value |
|-------|-------|
| Document ID | `GUOSMM-C-2026-001` |
| Series | C |
| Document type | International Settlements Bank Charter |
| Published | 2026-06-30T12:00:00Z |
| Effective | 2026-06-13T00:00:00Z |
| Republication | v2 (2026-06-30T12:00:00Z) |

---


# International Settlements Bank Charter — DBIS Tripartite Sovereign Body

**Enabling act:** GUOSMM-A-2026-001  
**Operating name:** DBIS (Digital Bank of International Settlements)

## Preamble

The Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of St John of Jerusalem of Rhodes and of Malta ("the Order"), recognized by Pope Paschal II in the Bull *Pie Postulatio Voluntatis* (1113) and governed under the Constitutional Charter and Code promulgated 3 September 2022, exercises delegated magistral authority under Article 15 and Article 6(5) of that Charter. This instrument is published in the Gazzetta Ufficiale dell'Ordine Sovrano Militare di Malta (GUOSMM) as subordinate Order law. It is not an amendment to the Carta Costituzionale.

Legal effectiveness originates from Tier 1 GUOSMM publication under Order law. External notice serves transparency and interoperability — not creation.

The **International Settlements Bank**, operating as **DBIS**, is established as a **Tripartite Sovereign Body** to settle between **Electronic Money Central Banks (EMCBs) and other central banks** within the **treatied nations of the Order**. DBIS operates on the **DBIS settlement rail** — **completely apart from the OMNL chain**. DBIS is **not** OMNL, **not** the Treasury (SCUDO issuer), and **not** GRU monetary policy.

## Article 1 — Establishment

1.1 The **International Settlements Bank (DBIS)** is established under delegated magistral authority as a **Tripartite Sovereign Body** for settlement and clearing among EMCBs and central banks.  
1.2 DBIS possesses institutional personality on the **settlement plane** for clearing, finality, and multilateral net settlement — not for domestic e-money issuance or prudential licensing.

## Article 2 — Tripartite sovereignty

2.1 DBIS sovereignty rests on three pillars:

| Pillar | Constituent |
|--------|-------------|
| **I** | **The Order** — 1113 enumeration; GUOSMM magistral instruments |
| **II** | **Treatied nations of the Order** — acceding sovereign states and treaty frameworks |
| **III** | **Participating EMCBs and central banks** — settlement parties within treaty membership |

2.2 Tripartite sovereignty means capacity to settle, clear, and achieve finality among participating EMCBs and central banks under DBIS law and treaty notice — **not** extraterritorial compulsion of national banking licenses.

## Article 3 — Objects

3.1 Clearing, reserve custody, correspondent settlement, liquidity provision, and reconciliation among **EMCBs** (including OMNL as Order EMCB) and **other central banks** within treatied nations of the Order.  
3.2 Settlement finality per GUOSMM-C-2026-002.  
3.3 Interoperability among admitted settlement participants through standards alignment and notice — functional analogue to BIS among classical central banks; **not** identity with BIS or IMF.

## Article 4 — Separation from OMNL

4.1 DBIS settlement operations occur on the **DBIS settlement rail** — **completely apart from the OMNL chain**.  
4.2 OMNL (GUOSMM-B-2026-001) remains the Order's **domestic EMCB**; DBIS does not supervise OMNL's domestic e-money ledger or substitute for OMNL prudential functions.  
4.3 Treasury issuance of **SCUDO** (GUOSMM-A-2026-001) and **GRU** monetary-policy frameworks are outside DBIS issuance authority.

## Article 5

… [truncated — download body.md for full text]