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Data Privacy and Financial Services: Understanding the New Normal

Due to the expanding utilisation of technology, the digital economy’s [...]

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 [...]

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

Predominance of the US dollar (USD) funding market, notably post [...]

Stablecoins, Market Integration and Contagion

Stablecoins are a type of digital asset that purports to [...]

The Rise of Central Bank Digital Currencies in the Caribbean

Despite the relatively widespread adoption of mobile and internet technology [...]

Central Bank Digital Currencies and Financial Inclusion

Despite the fact that central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) are [...]

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

The Great Financial Crisis (GFC), which began in 2007 and [...]

Reality Bites: Bitcoin’s Recent Successes and Setbacks

The month of June 2021 was an extremely eventful month [...]

Bitcoin Accepted Here – Should Other Emerging and Developing Countries Follow El Salvador and Make Bitcoin Legal Tender?

Central banks are increasingly taking actions that may cause harm [...]

Towards a Better Evaluation of Our Training Courses

One of the main activities of The SEACEN Centre is [...]

What about “Terms and Conditions”? Going Back to the Code of Hammurabi

What matters is not so much the money supply or [...]

Buy Now, Cry Later? A Look Into a New Phenomenon in Digital Payments and E-Commerce

Over the last few years, the growth of ‘buy now, [...]

Bitcoin’s 2021 Bull Run: What has Changed since 2017?

In February 2021, the price of Bitcoin skyrocketed to over [...]

Four Praises and a Funeral: In Defence of Short Selling

Everyone loves a good underdog story in which an unlikely [...]

Wall Street Bets Vs. The Street

The big story at the moment is how a community [...]

Programmable Money and CBDC

In 2020, one of the interesting topics being discussed in [...]

The Rise in Interest in CBDC

The following is the first in a series of blog [...]

COVID-19 and the Lessons for Widening Sustainable Finance

We are in the midst of an unprecedented pandemic. Apart [...]

Dynamics of Output Growth During Pandemics: Evidence from Two Centuries of Data

In this Suara SEACEN article, we show that global output [...]

Crisis Preparedness in the Age of COVID-19: a Primer

Maintaining confidence and the smooth functioning of financial markets[i] Since [...]