Central Bank Digital Currency Global Interoperability Principles

whitePaper | May 10, 2023

Fintech” is a word that’s barely a generation old. But in that nanosecond of historical time, this amalgam of “finance” and “technology” or, more specifically, the array of products and services that fintech companies have brought to life—has had an impact on the daily lives of billions of people.

whitePaper | April 14, 2022

Digital transformation in the financial space has been a hot topic in emerging markets like South Africa, Nigeria & Ghana for some time now, especially among incumbents who are threatened by radical digital-first banking entities like neobanks and challenger banks. A global study by Insider Intelligence1 estimated that in 2021, there were 29.8 million digital-only account holders, and this number is expected to cross 53.7 million by 2025, owing to the remarkable mobile penetration and ICT infrastructure development2 witnessed in marginalized regions like Africa in recent years.

whitePaper | August 8, 2022

Technological and social change have led to decreased reliance on both physical cash and traditional bank branches. While cash accounted for 45% of all payments in 2015, five years later it was used in only 17% of transactions in the UK. The coronavirus pandemic reinforced this tendency. Similarly, the number of bank and building society branches in the UK fell by about 34% between 2012 and 2021.

whitePaper | December 18, 2019

The financial services industry is in upheaval and while there is a lot of recent talk about rising complexity and disruption, this transformation has actually been almost twenty years in the making. Since the year 2000, banks have faced stricter and more regulations, driving up the cost of compliance. Investment in new fintech players has grown steadily in the last decade.

whitePaper | April 6, 2023

In a survey of over 780 interviews with 250 major banks across the globe, Finastra and East & Partners open the lid providing insights into how the tactical playbook for banking is changing for banks, and why the growing importance of technology in the banking industry is fueling a new age of competitive, ESG-related digital banking.

whitePaper | January 27, 2022

We at Nuvei have long been believers in the long-term potential of crypto, in the last year innovation has accelerated with the rise of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and decentralized finance (DeFi) — the latest example of the latent potential of blockchain technology. These innovations have introduced millions of consumers to crypto but one of the use cases that has remained elusive is crypto as a “means of exchange”. However, multiple regulatory, technological, and corporate adoption drivers are creating the right catalysts for accelerated crypto payments adoption and acceptance.