While G7 central banks continue to agonise over supplementing physical cash with digital money, and in the case of the US, ban the central bank digital currency version outright, India has surged ahead with a mobile-based payments platform accounting for half the world’s real-time payments in 2023.| OMFIF
In person London, 20-21 May 2025 The Digital money summit 2025 represents an unparalleled opportunity for stakeholders across government, central banking, financial services and technology to connect and collaborate. Together, we will capitalise on innovations in digital money and push the industry towards practical actions for an inclusive, secure and regulated digital financial future. GET […]| OMFIF
Pix, launched in November 2020, is Brazil’s most visible success in financial technology. Designed as a public, open instant payments platform, Pix| OMFIF
While unperturbed by the customary condescension from ‘crypto-native’ digital assets disruptors at closed-door meetings, this person instead came away profoundly unsettled from similar gatherings of central bankers discussing the potentially radical implications of the forthcoming Genius Act – the US stablecoin bill expected to become law in 2025. This was put in motion by Donald Trump’s 23 January executive order, which set out for the US to lead the world in blockchain-based finance...| OMFIF
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