Central Bank Payments News Updates
Nigeria’s Payments Modernisation: Three Perspectives from the Central Bank of Nigeria
CBPN is pleased to feature this exclusive series of contributions from three senior officials at the Central Bank of Nigeria’s …
Designing the Next Generation of Fraud Prevention Policy: From Fragmented Response to Coordinated Prevention
Fraud and scams have emerged as one of the most significant challenges facing the digital economy. What was once viewed …
How EMTECH’s Digital Regulatory Platform Is Powering Nigeria’s VASP Sandbox Track
Between 2021 and 2023 the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) had a well-known defensive posture towards virtual assets. Now in …
The Great Wealth Transfer: Part Two
The race to preserve human judgment as AI rewrites financial decision-making I was born in the late 1960s, which places …
The Road Every Payment Takes
Inside Rwanda’s journey toward an interoperable, inclusive, and future-ready payment ecosystem. What happens after you press ‘Send’? Almost nothing, or …
JAM-DEX® – The Challenge of Moving from Early Adoption to Everyday Use in Jamaica
Key Findings JAM-DEX® demonstrates a common retail CBDC pattern: wallet downloads can rise quickly, while habitual CBDC use remains elusive. …
In This Issue: September 2026
- In an exclusive series of contributions, Musa Itopa Jimoh, Nafisa Usman, and Dr. Chikelu Edison Oballum of the Central Bank of Nigeria‘s Payments System Policy Department examine the infrastructure, regulatory, and cloud resilience dimensions of Nigeria’s payments modernisation under the Payment Systems Vision (PSV) 2028
- EMTECH‘s Jill Lagos Shemin traces Nigeria’s shift from a restrictive stance on virtual assets to proactive regulation, examining how the Central Bank of Nigeria’s new VASP sandbox track is creating the evidence base for a future licensing regime
- Mastercard‘s Helena Forest and Luke Reynolds outline how fraud prevention policy must evolve from institution-by-institution response to coordinated, ecosystem-wide prevention, drawing on international experience to outline six characteristics of payment systems that successfully manage fraud and scam risk
- Alan Koenigsberg of Koenigsberg Insights asserts that institutional memory should be treated as an operational resilience asset, as the great wealth transfer and the rise of AI converge to reshape financial systems
- Plus, a recap of the 10th Central Bank Payments Conference in Istanbul, must-read reports, notable speeches, the latest global payments news, and more!
