WCR Best Trade Finance Bank 2024
World Commerce Review is pleased to announce that Euro Exim Bank Limited has been awarded the WCR Best Trade Finance Bank 2024 for the fifth year running
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Digital payments
Innovation, integration and independence
Innovative, integrated and independent retail payments are crucial components of our monetary system. As payments transition into the digital era, Piero Cipollone discusses taking the Single Euro Payments Area to the next level
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The naked emperor’s new clothes
Bitcoin has failed on the promise to be a global decentralised digital currency. Ulrich Bindseil and Jürgen Schaaf argue that the latest approval of an ETF doesn’t change the fact that Bitcoin is not suitable as means of payment or as an investment
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Advancing crossborder payments
Payments are a vital part of the global and interconnected financial ecosystem. Michelle Bowman considers the evolving payments landscape
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Shaping the future financial system in the public interest
Technological change has been fast and foundational. Cecilia Skingsley discusses innovation and the future of central bank digital currencies
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Money and payments: a ‘black ships’ moment?
Jon Cunliffe recalls Facebook’s announcement in 2019 that it was launching a digital currency, and discusses the three areas where this galvanised more urgent action by authorities
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Global action to enhance crossborder payments
Victoria Cleland discusses the difference to people and economies worldwide that enhancing crossborder payments would make
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Enabling digital trade
World Commerce Review interview Dr Graham Bright, a leading thinker on the digitalisation of trade, about the challenges that need solving
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Will a digital pound be needed by the end of this decade?
Jon Cunliffe discusses why a digital pound is needed, what the model could look like and how the digital pound may sit within the digital payments landscape
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