- RSwitch CEO Blaise Pascal Gasabira chronicles Rwanda’s journey towards an interoperable, inclusive, and future-ready payment ecosystem, examining the policy decisions, collaboration, and technical foundations underpinning eKash, as well as the road ahead
- Etel Williams and Yohann Townsend of the Bank of Jamaica examine the gap between wallet registration and lasting everyday adoption in Jamaica’s JAM-DEX® retail CBDC, offering lessons for issuers, merchants, and governments
- KU Leuven’s Elif Cansu Akoğuz, Tarik Roukny, and Tamas Vadasz show how mandating the sharing of payment data affects the pricing of payment services, and what this means for the distribution of benefits from open banking
- Mike Gallaher of Gallaher Advisory assesses the growth of European digital wallets and argues that current initiatives remain too narrowly focused on intra-European interoperability, at the cost of global connectivity
- Drawing on two decades of bilateral merchandise trade data from 197 economies, the Visa Economic Empowerment Institute’s Julia Park, Jacob Levy, and Kati Suominen present evidence of global trade fragmentation and what it means for the future of cross-border payments
- Plus, all the latest payments news from around the globe, recent industry reports, noteworthy speeches, and more from the past month
