In August 2025, BankservAfrica rebranded as PayInc, signalling a decisive shift and commitment to the future of faster, digital payments. Building on more than 50 years of facilitating payments, the organisation, in its role as a national payments utility,…
The innovation that is underway across both financial and non-financial sectors, private and public, advanced and emerging economies has prompted many to consider how these disparate initiatives can be brought together. Critical to this discussion is…
Every payment has a purpose, and these purposes have expanded remarkably — from invoice payments and utility bills to salary transfers, personal donations, association subscriptions, and beyond. With this versatility comes significant responsibility for…
Central Banking at the Frontier: Creating a Digital Financial Landscape aims to guide readers through the emerging digital financial landscape from a central banking perspective, providing a glimpse into the challenges that the central banks are facing,…
Regulators need to be open to innovation to balance the market, which is why the National Bank of Georgia (NBG) created the Financial Innovation Office (FIO). The FIO serves as a critical, yet often understated, protagonist at the heart of this technological…
Through close collaboration with academic researchers, national and international policy-making bodies, and industry practitioners, the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance provides the expertise necessary to fulfil its mission. Its ongoing evolution…
The emerging consensus that consumer acceptance is a critical success factor in a CBDC deployment compels countries at all stages of CBDC development to align their designs closely with consumer needs and expectations. These insights can only be established…
Central Bank Payments News spoke to Binur Zhalenov, Chief Executive Officer of the National Payments Corporation of Kazakhstan, about the evolution and future of the Digital Tenge, its place within a broader digital revolution, and lessons Kazakhstan’s…
The possible introduction of a digital euro, in the form of a central bank retail digital currency or CBDC, would be a major project for the euro area and the Eurosystem. It would significantly change the form in which central bank money is made available…
The digital euro will enter a highly competitive, multifaceted, and heterogeneous payments landscape in the Eurozone. As with any other payment method, it needs to provide additional value for the variety of stakeholders to achieve the envisioned acceptance…
