The Electronic payment acceptance (EPA) working group is premised on the concept that giving individuals access to transaction accounts is a necessary, though not a sufficient, condition. Beyond achieving...
The World Bank has been leading the Electronic Payment Acceptance (EPA) working group, as part of its work on the Financial Inclusion Global Initiative (FIGI). The objective of this working group is to...
The electronic-payment landscape experienced its biggest transformational shift over the past decade, driven by the emergence of new, innovative, and consumer-centric solutions that are not only remarkably...
Payment and settlement systems and services have become vital components of the economic life of contemporary societies. Over the last decades, they have gone through several waves of reforms that have...
Ethiopia’s financial sector has, over the past decade, been operating under a financial repression framework used by the government for managing its monetary and foreign exchange policy, and financing...