Payments
Book notes: Virtuous bankers: a day in the life of the 18th-century Bank of England, by Anne L Murphy
A bottom-up account of how clerks managed operations and enhanced the BoE’s reputation
RBA report looks at cross-border payments
Multilateral platform would be more scalable than bilateral links, Australian central bank says
Day-to-day payments too reliant on big tech – BdF deputy
Digital euro will not create a European ‘Big Brother’, Denis Beau says
Payment fraud is on the rise in Denmark and Sweden
Scammers and fraudsters are moving to digital realm
Moldovan instant payments system used over 100,000 times
Central bank says new system’s use will expand to businesses this year
ECB says iPhone is currently incompatible with digital euro
Apple users may have worse digital euro payments experience – Cipollone
RBI increases payments surveillance during elections
Indian central bank tells system operators to watch for suspicious transactions, report says
BoE’s digital securities sandbox to lead to new regulatory regime
Five-year project to open for applications this summer
SNB to explore wCBDC settlement for monetary operations
Project Helvetia allows safe and efficient settlement, says governor, but retail CBDC is risky
Africa’s CMA revamps cross-border payments over AML fears
Central Bank of Lesotho officials say the transition should be smooth but challenging
Laos and Brunei join Asian cross-border payments initiative
Laotian and Thai central banks also launch new cross-border payments link
Banknotes: January to March 2024
A round-up of news and salient issues that have affected central bankers in the past three months
Slight majority of US consumers ‘warm’ to CBDC, survey says
Respondents most interested in free use and widespread market adoption, Philadelphia Fed finds
BIS project aims to redesign global payments infrastructure
“Most ambitious” innovation hub project to date will test BIS’s “unified ledger” concept
Digital payments in Saudi Arabia rise to 70% of retail transactions
Transactions processed through national payment systems hit 10.8 billion
Denmark to join eurozone’s T2 and Tips systems
National Bank of Denmark expects to fully transition by April 2025
Fintech Benchmarks 2024 – model banks analysis
Data reveals how advanced and emerging economy central banks structure their fintech functions
Central Banking Awards 2024: second group of winners unveiled
Ukraine’s Andriy Pyshnyy named Governor of the year
Has mobile money achieved what retail CBDCs aspire to?
Central Banking Spring Meetings: Fintech panellists discuss financial inclusion and bank casualties
Fintech Benchmarks 2024 report – the promise and threat of AI
Benchmark data reveals how central banks are developing CBDC, tapping into AI tools and using cloud services to boost their work
Irish central bank says payments strategy needs drastic change
Deputy governor says sector is slow to change and backs draft “access to cash” law
PBoC pledges to improve visitors’ payment experience
China’s central bank tells firms to make mobile and card payments easier for foreign nationals
Philly Fed study shows growth in ‘buy now, pay later’ products
Users of deferred-payment schemes are generally people in financial difficulty, say authors
Malaysian governor urges firms to support currency
Cambodian and Malaysian central banks will launch a new cross-border payments link