Data Privacy and Financial Services: Understanding the New Normal

Due to the expanding utilisation of technology, the digital economy’s growth, and the enlarging fragmentation [...]

Revolutionising Payment Services: The Impact of the Payment Services Directive (PSD) in the European Union and beyond

The rise of internet and mobile payments has drastically altered the way people pay for [...]

Dollar Strength and its Implications for Emerging Market Capital Flows – A Macro-Financial Perspective

Predominance of the US dollar (USD) funding market, notably post Great Financial Crisis (GFC), has [...]

Stablecoins, Market Integration and Contagion

Stablecoins are a type of digital asset that purports to maintain a stable value by [...]

The Rise of Central Bank Digital Currencies in the Caribbean

Despite the relatively widespread adoption of mobile and internet technology in the Caribbean, retail payments[i] [...]

Central Bank Digital Currencies and Financial Inclusion

Despite the fact that central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) are frequently called ‘a solution in [...]

To Bail-In or not To Bail-In: A Question for Asian Financial Policymakers

The Great Financial Crisis (GFC), which began in 2007 and whose effects persisted for a [...]

Reality Bites: Bitcoin’s Recent Successes and Setbacks

The month of June 2021 was an extremely eventful month for the cryptocurrency universe, with [...]