The global evolution of payments is changing the payments landscape of Trinidad and Tobago. The Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago has seen new players offering new payment services and products. These new products and services, supported by fintech…
Jordan’s financial sector is undergoing a remarkable transformation, with the Central Bank of Jordan (CBJ) at the helm, leading the charge toward modernization. Amid regional challenges, Jordan has emerged as a center of stability, resilience, and innovation.…
Effectively preventing fraud as well as identifying bad actors and recovering ill-gotten funds requires cooperation among payment system stakeholders. Chief Executive Dr Leo Lipis and Director Andrew Gómez of Lipis Advisors present thoughts about fraud,…
The BIS Innovation Hub (BISIH) has developed Nexus, which is a blueprint to connect IPS globally in a multilateral and scalable manner. Nexus achieves this by standardising the way IPS connect to one another by leveraging on a common set of Application…
The third annual Central Bank Payments News supplement features insightful perspectives from six leading players in the global payments ecosystem who are working closely with central banks to spark genuine transformation in payments.
The instant payment systems (IPS) landscape in Africa is vibrant, propelled by the growing need for faster, interoperable, more secure, more affordable, and more convenient retail payment options. As of 2023, there were 32 live public or public-private…
A high-profile delegation of central bankers and innovators in the payments industry will be heading to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, this June for the Currency Research Global Payments Week 2024. To find out more about the themes guiding the events — the Central…
The Central Bank of the Republic of Türkiye (CBRT) is playing a catalytic role in the development of a “robust and innovative payment landscape,” most notably with the establishment in 2021 of an instant payment system and, more recently, its work on…
The instant payment ecosystem in Africa continues to show increased dynamism, as the number of instant payment systems (IPS) expands and more transactions run through them, as documented in the State of Inclusive Instant Payment Systems in Africa 2023…
The settlement of the Danish krone (DKK) is scheduled to migrate to the European payment and securities settlement platform TARGET Services in 2025. The Danish krone will be the first non-euro currency to be connected to all TARGET Services for payments…
