May 2024

• We sit down for a discussion with Kasidit Tansanguan, Nuntapun Bhensook, and Thanaporn Rattanakul of the Bank of Thailand’s Digital Currency Policy and Development Unit on the Bank’s recently concluded retail CBDC pilot.
• Kah Kit Yip of the BIS Innovation Hub Singapore Centre provides an update on Project Nexus and its multilateral approach to connecting instant payment systems globally.
• Todd Fox and Alan Koenigsberg of Visa, in collaboration with Nextrade Group Founder and CEO Kati Suominen, explore how mid-market companies are leveraging global B2B payments innovations to meet their trade finance and working capital objectives.
• We’re also releasing our third annual Industry Perspectives report. This year’s theme is Transforming Payments for the Real World: Industry Insights in 2024, featuring contributions from:
• Joachim Samuelsson (Crunchfish): Privacy Considerations in CBDC
• Carmelle Cadet (EMTECH): Fostering Innovative CBDC Use Cases Through the e-Cedi Hackathon Pilot
• Shadi Dababneh (ProgressSoft Corporation): Central Banking in the Digital Age: A Nationwide Perspective
• Jarrad Hubble (RTGS.global): Why Cross-Border Payments in Opportunity Markets are Ripe for Disruption
• Walter Schmölzer (UNIFITS): Unifits Helps Shape Next-Generation Payment Testing in the UAE
• Ezechiel Copic and Rami Amin (Visa): What it Takes for a Payment System to Thrive