Central Bank Payments News Updates
Operational Resilience in Financial Market Infrastructures: A Systemic Imperative in a Changing Operating Environment
Financial market infrastructures are often described as the plumbing of financial markets. The analogy is useful because it conveys the …
Building an Inclusive Financial System is a Policy Endeavor
I. Introduction This is a unique time in history as the world is changing fast, abundant with opportunities and risks. …
Why Cash Still Wins: Trust in Public Money
Gabriel R. Bizama, Researcher, University of Bern. 1. Introduction: Taxonomy of Money Money can be classified along two dimensions: the …
Beyond the Rails: Why Africa’s Payment Revolution Must Shift from Transactions to Participation
Africa has built some of the most advanced payment rails in the world. Instant payment systems are scaling across the …
Oversight and Supervision are Key for Open Finance Success
I. Introduction Open finance — the customer-permissioned sharing of financial data across institutions and service providers — is no longer …
Who Authorized This? Identity, Delegation, and Security in Agentic Payments
Agentic commerce (aCommerce) is the rapidly emerging paradigm in which AI agents — autonomous software systems capable of reasoning, planning, …
In This Issue: July 2026
- ESMA’s Klaus Löber examines how operational resilience has become a systemic imperative for financial market infrastructures, exploring how a changing operating environment, including cyber threats, AI, and tokenisation, is reshaping what it takes to maintain trust in the wider financial system
- In a continuation of CGAP’s summer series, Ivo Jeník, Denise Dias, Mehmet Kerse, and Stefan Staschen draw on their recent report to outline a five-element framework for vision-guided financial regulation, helping leaders craft a transformative agenda for inclusive digital finance
- Gabriel R. Bizama of the University of Bern traces the taxonomy of public and private money, arguing that both the private sector and central banks should consider the benefits of cash when designing digital public money and fast payment systems
- Plus, catch up on the latest payments news, people on the move, industry happenings, payments-focused reports, and notable speeches from global authorities
