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2024 Payment Methods Report: Overview, Insights, and Statistics

Clearly Payments

America Biometric Payments 2 Global, especially mobile-first markets Cash Payments 5 Emerging Markets, some developed regions Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) 1 Asia, Caribbean Credit Cards Overview : Credit cards allow consumers to make purchases on credit, paying later and often with interest.

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CBDCs in practice: What we’ve learned from the early movers

The Payments Association

James Hurren explores what early CBDC deployments across Asia, the Caribbean, and Europe reveal about usage, adoption, and the future of cross-border digital money. Central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) have rapidly evolved from theoretical concepts into live pilots and national deployments.

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Is 2025 Finally the Year for Open Finance in Southeast Asia?

Fintech News

Similarly, Project Nexus , spearheaded by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), aims to improve cross-border payment systems through faster, cheaper, and more transparent transactions. The initiative seeks to establish multilateral linkages of national retail payment systems.

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Offline settlements with a digital pound: Lessons from the BoE’s report

The Payments Association

The experiment was carried out in partnership with Thales, Secretarium, and Consult Hyperion, demonstrating both the technical plausibility and the layered complexities of enabling a central bank digital currency (CBDC) to function without internet connectivity. For payments leaders, the findings are not simply a technical footnote.

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Digital Currency Eyes Wholesale — Not Retail — Payments Down Under

PYMNTS

As part of those efforts, the lab is being used to explore “whether there is a role for a digital Australian dollar — that is, an Australian [central bank digital currency (CBDC)] — in the context of the bank’s responsibilities for issuing the currency and overseeing the payments system.”. The Rewards.

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Brazil Could Lead The Way On Central Bank Digital Currencies With 2022 Rollout

PYMNTS

The race toward central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) is tightening, with Brazil reportedly looking to launch one by 2022 in a bid to help digitize payments. Roberto Campos Neto, president of Brazil’s central bank, said his country’s new digital currency will work in concert with its new instant-payments system. “To

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Today In Payments: ECB Outlines Use Cases For Digital Euro; Goldman To Pay $2.5B For GM’s Credit Card Business

PYMNTS

In today’s top news, the European Central Bank outlines use cases for a digital euro, and Goldman Sachs will buy GM’s credit card business. European Central Bank Outlines Use Cases for Digital Euro. Plus, Walmart is partnering with Clover Health for its new health centers. Goldman to Pay $2.5B