The objective of the Finance Sector Resilience and Development Project for Samoa is to enhance Samoa’s financial supervisory and national payment and identification systems for resilience. The project...
Launched for the first time 2007, the Global Payment Systems Survey (GPSS) has assisted authorities and policy makers worldwide in making meaningful cross-economy comparisons and assessing progress in...
Launched for the first time 2007, the Global Payment Systems Survey (GPSS) has assisted authorities and policy makers worldwide in making meaningful cross-economy comparisons and assessing progress in...
The methodology detailed in this Guide includes two components: (1) qualitative analysis and (2) quantitative analysis (Figure 1). There are advantages and disadvantages of these two approaches. For example...
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...
The development and implementation of a safe and efficient national payments system is a foundational component of the financial sector. Payment and settlement systems are the mechanisms established to...
As innovation in retail payments continues and the systems evolve, effective governance of them becomes more complicated and increases in importance. Retail payment systems are essential for the economy...
The World Bank (WB) has been monitoring closely the developments of fast payment systems (FPS) by central banks and private players across the globe. This comprehensive study of FPS implementations across...
The joint World Bank - International Monetary Fund (IMF) financial sector assessment program (FSAP) of 2018 recommended for the Banco Central do Brasil (BCB) to pursue full interoperability of automated...
The Latin America and the Caribbean Payments Week (LAC-PW) is a biennial summit of senior staff of central banks covering payment and settlement systems. Securities commissions and multilateral bodies...
One of the statutory objectives of the Banque Centrale des Comores (BCC) is to ensure the smooth operation and security of payment and settlement systems. In order to fulfill that responsibility, the BCC...
Financial inclusion starts with payments. They serve as a gateway to other financial services, such as savings, credit and insurance. Transaction accounts operated by a regulated payment service provider...
There are twenty-one ATM networks in Brazil, mostly single bank networks. Cards are the predominant payment instrument used in Brazil, with the card market being the second largest in the world. Despite...
The Global Payments Week (GPW) is biennial summit of senior staff of central banks, securities commissions and multilateral bodies covering payment and settlement systems. The GPW is convened by the payment...