Banco Central do Brasil launched Pix, its real-time payment (RTP) system, in November 2020. Pix has a sophisticated technological infrastructure that was developed and is operated, managed and regulated by the central bank.
On 28 April, Spain, Portugal, and parts of France experienced a widespread…
In late February, the Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) gave evidence to the Economics Committe…
The Nordic countries – Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Estonia – are …
The latest US survey and diary of consumer payment choice compared October…
Sveriges Riksbank (Riksbank) works to ensure that payments in Sweden are safe, efficient, and accessible. They need to function in peacetime, crisis, and states of heightened alert. The Riksbank publishes a payments report most years, although 2023 was an exception. The latest report describes and analyses developments in the payments market over the past year.
An article by David Birch has argued that cash should not be regarded as the catastrophe solution. Cash is a solution, but only for very short time frames. What is needed is the means for person-to-p…
In 2023, the Bank of Canada developed a travel-based measure of cash access. This quantified how far Canadians needed to travel to their nearest Automatic Banknote Machine (ABM) or financial institut…
This year a Cash Sustainability workshop is being run alongside the High Security Printing (HSP) …
In 2023, the Bank of Canada developed a travel-based measure of cash access. This quantified …
On 28 April, Spain, Portugal, and parts of France experienced a widespread electrical outage that …
An article by David Birch has argued that cash should not be regarded as the …
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