Entries for 'Digital Finance'
April 16, 2024
This week’s Digital Finance Developments covers funding for and advancements in quantum computing, including progress toward commercialization and regulation of this emerging technology.
April 4, 2024
Edition of the Digital Finance Download covering March 2024. A monthly update of significant developments in digital finance around the globe.
April 3, 2024
This staff note on developments in the digital euro project reports on new rulebook workstreams, a technical note on holding limits, and exploration of technologies for wholesale central bank money settlement, including planned trials with financial market stakeholders in 2024.
April 3, 2024
On March 31, the Institute of International Finance submitted a brief response letter to the AI Advisory Board of the United Nations in acknowledgement of its recently published Interim Report: Governing AI for Humanity.
April 2, 2024
This week’s Digital Finance Developments spotlights recent and upcoming policy changes for Canadian financial services, with a focus on developments in payments, digital assets, artificial intelligence (AI), and open banking policy.
April 2, 2024
The February 2024 meeting of the IIF's AI/ML Experts Group discussed the execution of AI/ML, GenAI, and LLM tools in 2024, the need to move from strategy to palpable use cases, and comments about balancing regulation and innovation in the AI/ML space.
March 26, 2024
The February session of DataTalk explored Data Quality and Data Availability in the context of new developments such as AI and GenAI.
March 19, 2024
This week’s Digital Finance Developments discusses recent developments in artificial intelligence (AI) policy, including EU AI Act passage and next steps, responses to the U.S.’s Executive Order on AI, and efforts to coordinate these and other policies from the G7 and United Nations.
March 5, 2024
This week’s Digital Finance Developments discusses recent progress in digital trade agreements, highlighting a surprising development at the World Trade Organization. We explore the complex dynamics around data and digital services trade agreements, calling attention to future areas of concern.
March 4, 2024
Edition of the Digital Finance Download covering February 2024. A monthly update of significant developments in digital finance around the globe
March 1, 2024
This members-only briefing note looks at the main issues addressed by the Instant Payments Regulation, evolutions in instant payments in the euro area, and how the regulation relates to digital identity developments, the digital euro project, and broader cross-border payments initiatives.
February 29, 2024
This IIF staff note summarizes the UK authorities’ responses to their consultation on a digital pound, the UK’s CBDC project. While the papers provide useful clarity, key financial stability issues remain open, including holding limits and the possibility of the digital pound paying interest.
February 28, 2024
The February 2024 IIF Digital Asset Forum explored conceptual frameworks for digital asset platforms, including the fragmentation, interoperability, and standardization dynamics that the private and public sectors must work together to solve.
February 20, 2024
This week’s Developments highlights numerous recent initiatives supporting digital finance in Australia, finding that Australian authorities are engaging in a far-reaching modernization of digital assets and payments regulation, and beginning to formulate artificial intelligence policies.
February 7, 2024
This briefing note discusses regimes for stablecoin issuers in the European Union, Dubai, and Singapore, and recently proposed regimes in the United Kingdom and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, noting that the level of divergence between these new regimes prompts concerns.
February 6, 2024
This week’s Developments considers changes in data sharing frameworks, such as the EU’s Common European Data Spaces initiative and Hong Kong’s push toward Open Finance, highlighting that while some advancements in effective data sharing policies have been made, more coordinated work is needed.
February 5, 2024
Edition of the Digital Finance Download covering January 2024. A monthly update of significant developments in digital finance around the globe
February 1, 2024
IIF Digital Finance submitted a letter to the Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures (CPMI) concerning industry initiatives underway that contribute to the G20’s objectives of faster, cheaper and more transparent and inclusive cross-border payments.
January 30, 2024
This note summarizes the digital euro Rulebook Development Group’s recent update, identifying potential concerns and positive developments. It also discusses a Copenhagen Economics study on the digital euro's potential impacts on financial stability, innovation and competition, and consumer welfare.
January 23, 2024
This week’s Developments explores international policy approaches to artificial intelligence (AI), nothing that while AI is at the top of agenda in many groups, few specifics about how they will develop AI policy or regulation are available, complicating the outlook for industry.