Australian CBDC Pilot for Digital Finance Innovation

whitePaper | August 25, 2022

This paper studies the economics behind the investment in information technologies (IT) by U.S. commercial banks in the past decade. By linking banks’, IT spending to their lending technologies, we analyze the distinctive natures of banks’ dealings with information across various lending activities. Investment in communication IT is shown to be associated more with improving banks’ ability of soft information production and transmission, while investment in software IT helps enhance banks’ hard information processing capacity. We exploit polices that affect geographic regions differentially to show causally that banks respond to an increased demand for small business credit (mortgage refinance) by increasing their spending on communication (software) IT spending. We also find that the entry of fintech induces commercial banks to increase their investment in IT—more so in the software IT category.

whitePaper | September 20, 2022

India is set to become the third largest economy in the world by 2029. The FinTech industry has a crucial role to play in the country’s dream to reach the third largest economy from the fifth largest economy in the world. The global fintech market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 23.58% from 2021 to 2025. Total global fintech funding (across mergers & acquisitions, private equity, and venture capital) reached $210 billion with a record 5,684 deals in 2021 up from $125 billion across 3,674 deals in 2020.

whitePaper | November 1, 2022

Financial services firms face more and greater digital risks than at any time in their history. The global threat environment is constantly evolving, with new technologies, adversaries, and criminal techniques emerging weekly – and in response more and more regulations are being introduced.

whitePaper | November 26, 2019

Financial services is the nervous system of our economy; a critical system that needs to operate efficiently and equitably for our society to function. The legacy 20th century business models in finance have become increasingly obsolete and most have not adapted to the fundamental paradigm shift—technological, institutional and societal—ushered in by our continuing transition from an Industrial Age to an emerging Information Age.

whitePaper | February 28, 2020

Payments has seen much change and innovation in the last years and will continue to evolve at the same pace. Just two examples are the introduction of Instant Payments in Europe and the launch of Open Banking/PSD2. On the infrastructure side, SWIFT has introduced gpi, setting the new standard for cross-border payments. The other major event was the introduction of Request to Pay.

whitePaper | October 6, 2022

Over the last several years, the cloud computing industry has experienced incredible growth. Between 2018 and 2019 alone, the public cloud services market expanded by 17.5% to $214.3 billion, according to Gartner Research, and hit $331 billion by 2023. While cyber security is always a concern for people, most companies and consumers have become comfortable with storing information on third-party servers and accessing programs online.