Dollarization in Sub-Saharan Africa

The paper was prepared by a staff team led by Mauro Mecagni. The main contributors to Chapter 1 are Rodolfo Maino, Rodrigo Garcia-Verdu, Justin Matz, Futoshi Narita, Jemma Dridi, and Manuel Rosales. The main contributors to Chapter 2 are Juan Sebastian Corrales,Patrick Imam, Sebastian Weber, and Etienne Yehoue...

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whitePaper | September 10, 2022

The Global Payments Revenue is expected to reach $2.5 trillion by 2025 overcoming the pandemic induced decline in 2020/2021, when revenues stood at $1.5 trillion.

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Capital Planning Leading Your Financial Institution to Success

whitePaper | July 30, 2022

If you’re from the southeast like I am, you might recognize late August and early September as a special time of the year. It’s a time the weather is cooling down, schools are starting up again, and most importantly, the lights on the football fields around the country are set to illuminate for the first time since February. It’s also the time of year that you can turn on any sports network and have a good chance of catching a coach talking about the upcoming season and their first matchup of the season.

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whitePaper | November 29, 2022

Based on our experience of building financial and banking products, we can state that there are corners FinTech companies should never cut. The past shows that core security features and software compliance should be an integral part of any MVP coming to the market. Therefore, you either put it in the MVP backlog from the very beginning or use a prebuilt software that already comes with the core security components.

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Open Banking, Open Data and Financial-grade APIs

whitePaper | March 16, 2022

Data is often referred to as the “new oil” of the digital economy. It is a powerful asset used by companies to improve their services and to build artificial intelligence (AI) models. However data can often be used to “lock” consumers into a service. A move to consentdriven access to all user data can break that lock, make it easier for consumers to move between different service providers and unleash a wave of innovation. Open Banking can also help facilitate financial inclusion, better serving those on the margins of society by offering a bridge to the formal economy.

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Currency Conversion and the Hidden Costs of Global Trade

whitePaper | April 3, 2023

Every day, businesses send hundreds of billions of dollars in payments through the global banking system. But many organizations fail to recognize how inefficient – and costly – this process really is. Transaction costs may be relatively small on a per-transaction basis. But when one considers the sheer number and value of payments that are made each year, the tally of fees can reach into the billions of dollars.

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Hedging Risk and Setting Budget Rates

whitePaper | February 17, 2023

Managing a cross-border business brings with it a range of opportunities for growth, as well as some challenges! An informed approach to managing global payments and foreign currency exposure for one payment or thousands—will benefit your business, saving time, protecting your bottom line, and allowing you to take advantage of new opportunities. The foreign exchange market can feel, well, ‘foreign’. What moves markets? Why does one currency weaken and another rise? In the following pages, we’ll discuss some of the causes and effects of currency volatility, and strategies for staying on top of your foreign currency exposures and mitigating risk.

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