One of the most pressing challenges facing fintechs and impacting central banks is how to ensure regulatory compliance. With highly fragmented regulatory requirements, risk monitoring and reporting methods, a more integrated compliance management platform…
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,…
Xiaochen Zhang, Chief AI Officer & Executive Director at AI 2030, outlines three ways AI is pushing central banks to evolve and how they can seize this moment to create a future-oriented, frictionless, and personalised financial system for all.
The pace of evolution in instant payments, also known as real-time or fast payments, has been phenomenal, especially in emerging economies, and has acted as a catalyst to kickstart economic activities. Regulators and governments worldwide are striving…
On May 23, 2022, the Central Bank of Paraguay (BCP) implemented the first phase of the Paraguayan Instant Payment System (SPI). This first phase consisted of implementing electronic fund transfers 24 hours a day, 7 days a week (24x7). For end customers,…
It will likely be private sector innovation that provides the key to unlocking faster, safer, more efficient, and less expensive cross-border payments. The private sector is well placed to advise on and illustrate the practicalities of how to improve…
South Africa is currently transitioning its regulatory landscape to support increased access to the National Payment System (NPS) and to adopt activity-based licensing and regulation for payment service providers. The Payments Association of South Africa…
The Central Bank Payments News team recently sat down with Ian Woolford, Director of Money and Cash at the Reserve Bank of New Zealand — Te Pūtea Matua, for an in-depth discussion on the reserve bank’s Future of Money work program.
The Feature article in the August 2020 issue of Central Bank Payments News (CBPN) was authored by the Bank of Albania’s Ledia Bregu. At the time, Albania was less than half-way through its National Retail Payments Strategy, 2018–2023, an ambitious document…
The Bank of Ghana is committed to finding new and innovative ways through policy direction and projects, to promote the growth of MSMEs more than ever before. The Bank continues to support the industry as well as the FinTech ecosystem to bring more benefits…
