There's a chart that has been circulating for a while now on social media that shows payments traffic on SWIFT, a key global financial m...

Central bank settlement systems are the the tectonic plates of the payment system: they are vitally important to our lives, but we never see...

I recently noticed that the Bank of Jamaica, Jamaica's central bank, has implemented two new marketing strategies to drive adoption of ...

The European Union published its proposal for a digital euro late last month, which will be issued by the European Central Bank (ECB) if it ...

Why is the paper euro shrinking? Are we at peak cash ?  To begin with, here is the data, charted:  As the orange line shows, Europe is exper...

  The European Central Bank (ECB) recently published a report that explores the idea of introducing a digital euro for use by the general p...

SWIFT headquarters in Belgium ( source ) German foreign minister Heiko Maas recently penned an article in which he said that "it’...

The eyes of the world are on one of history's largest cash withdrawals ever. Earlier this week, the Central Bank of Iran ordered its...

Network view of cross-border banking, IMF, Minoiu and Reyes (2011)  PDF I recently blogged at Bullionstar on the topic of the upcoming...

Production of the European Central Bank's €500 notes is scheduled to come to an end later this year. But a chart of the quantity of ...

This post is about the dismantling of the rupee-zone between 1947-49, an historical event that is especially topical in light of two mode...