The digitalization of finance has accelerated the diffusion of FinTech and raised new questions about how AI, data security and blockchain shape consumer behaviour. This article examines current FinTech users, focusing on mobile banking, security perceptions, AI-enabled personalisation and trust...

This study examines how financial sector development mediates the relationship between digital payments and money laundering. The current study relies on a sample of 120 countries, including both developed and developing economies, for the years 2014, 2017, and 2021. The findings reveal that...

We review the macroeconomic literature on retail central bank digital currency (CBDC), organizing the discussion around a CBDC-irrelevance result. We identify both fundamental and policy-related sources of relevance, or departures from neutrality. Bank disintermediation-the crowding out of...

Discourses on Authorised Push Payment fraud ("APPF"), through which a victim is deceived into authorising fund transfers to a fraudster, often converged on normative questions of victim negligence and liability. Recent regulatory changes in the UK, which introduced a new mandatory reimbursement...

The article presents the uptake and development of instant payments across countries representing various geographies with diverse economic and social backgrounds. It identifies the critical success factors for the rapid adoption of instant payments.This study features five country cases where...

The new era of FinTech services enabled the financial sector to benefit from innovative and cost-effective products via process automation, fostering a foundation for more sustainable business growth. Despite considerable research, the determinants of FinTech services adoption by businesses...

This paper measures the post-treatment effects of Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) on mobile money and outstanding loans from commercial banks as a percentage of the GDP in Nigeria and the Bahamas, respectively, from the perspective of financial inclusion. The literature on the topic has...

A long-standing debate concerns whether technological change widens wage gaps by benefiting skilled labor. We show that financial technologiesspecifically, instant payment systemscan instead reduce wage inequality. Using an administrative dataset covering all registered employees in Brazil, we...

Mobile money has become a central digital alternative to traditional banking in developing countries, yet several African governments have introduced taxes on mobile money transactions. We develop a model that characterizes how such taxes affect payment choices and generate excess burden. The...

This paper examines the welfare effects of Tanzania's 2021 levy on mobile money transfers, a policy that sharply increased transaction costs in a country where mobile money is the primary channel for financial access and remittances. Using two waves of the Tanzania National Panel Survey (2014/15...

This assessment of the electronic payment acceptance (EPA) landscape in Eswatini has been produced as part of the Eswatini Financial Sector Technical Assistance Program implemented by the World Bank and funded by the European Union. The Program includes three components—the national payment...

Instant payment systems have rapidly gained global traction by enhancing transaction efficiency, yet evidence remains limited on how their designparticularly interoperabilityshapes market structure. We exploit Perus 2023 interoperability mandate as a quasi-natural experiment using a...

We present a spatial analysis of Bitcoin-accepting merchants using BTC Map, a global crowdsourced dataset built on OpenStreetMap, to provide ground-level evidence on Bitcoin's payment ecosystem. While prior research emphasizes macroeconomic drivers, our analysis of approximately 11,000 merchants...

Since its introduction as a decentralized digital currency for peer-to-peer transactions, Bitcoin's role in financial markets has undergone significant evolution. We employ bibliometric analysis to explore research trends in Bitcoin, identifying two primary perspectives in the recent financial...

The use of electronic currency for transactions, denoting a cashless paradigm, has become increasingly common. However, this financial innovation is not prevalent in all countries. This study aims to explain the discrepancies across countries, including individual and country factors. It may be...

As economies across the world continue to digitize, debates around the design and efficiency of national infrastructures for electronic payments have gained added relevance. Central to these debates is the question of how many electronic funds transfer (EFT) systems can viably coexist within a...

Consumer demand for "Buy Now, Pay Later" (BNPL) has surged, but the specific attributes consumers value remain unclear. We conduct a novel probabilistic stated choice experiment varying BNPL attributes across hypothetical scenarios to estimate consumers' underlying preferences and their...