Banking Transformation: The New Agenda
Only 24% of surveyed banks report being highly successful in achieving their cost reduction goals.
Global Reports & Market Data (2026)
90 documents
Emerging Risks in the Context of Liability Insurance
More than 93 percent of the material requirement for the Swiss economy originates from primary materials rather than recycled sources.
Growing Retail Digital Payments: The Value of Interoperability
Unified Payments Interface (UPI) processes more than 18 billion transactions per month in India.
Private Law Aspects of Token-Based Central Bank Digital Currencies
As of late 2023, 94 percent of 86 surveyed central banks were actively exploring CBDCs, moving from research to experiments.
EIF Equity Survey 2025
A total of 1,201 VC and PE mid-market fund managers contributed their insights to the annual EIF Equity Survey 2025.
Tokenization and Financial Market Inefficiencies
The Boston Consulting Group estimates that asset tokenization could reach $16 trillion or 10 percent of global GDP by 2030.
Central Bank Digital Currency Adoption: Inclusive Strategies for Intermediaries and Users
In Nigeria, 98.5 percent of eNaira wallets remained unused one year after launch.
Cross-Border Payments with Retail Central Bank Digital Currencies: Design and Policy Considerations
The framework analyzes cross-border retail CBDC payments across 5 core elements: access, communication, currency conversion, compliance, and settlement.
IFZ FinTech Study 2024
reached 483 companies by the close of 2023, reflecting a yearly growth of eleven percent, while Liechtenstein hosted 22 FinTech companies.
Macro-Financial Implications of Foreign Crypto Assets for Small Developing Economies
Total crypto asset market capitalization peaked at around $3 trillion in November 2021 before falling below $1 trillion.
Central Bank Digital Currency's Role in Promoting Financial Inclusion
Financial inclusion is a top priority, with about 60 percent of emerging and low-income countries considering it one of their top three motivations for issuing a retail CBDC.
Implications of Central Bank Digital Currencies for Monetary Policy Transmission
According to a 2022 BIS survey, 93 percent of central banks are actively exploring CBDCs and 58 percent report being likely to or possibly issuing a retail CBDC in the short or medium term.
Capital Flow Management Measures in the Digital Age (2): Design Choices for Central Bank Digital Currency
Central banks are exploring retail and wholesale CBDCs to complement traditional cross-border payment rails and lower transfer costs.
How Should Central Banks Explore Central Bank Digital Currency? A Dynamic Decision-Making Framework
Central banks must develop a long-term vision for monetary and payment systems spanning a time horizon of at least 5 to 10 years as economic digitalization accelerates.
Generative Artificial Intelligence in Finance: Risk Considerations
ChatGPT acquired more than 100 million active users within two months of its launch on November 30, 2022.
Institutional Arrangements for Fintech Regulation: Supervisory Monitoring
In Ghana, the growth of mobile money increased access to financial services for unbanked demographics, with 35 percent of adults in rural areas reporting having used the service between 2014 and 2017.
The Rise of Payment and Contracting Platforms
The IMF mandate is governed by the central banks and finance ministries of 190 member countries.
Taxing Stablecoins
Tether and USD Coin attempt to maintain a stable value by being purportedly backed one-for-one in value to underlying assets.
Towards Central Bank Digital Currencies in Asia and the Pacific: Results of a Regional Survey
By August 2021, total crypto asset volume had grown by 230 percent year over year in Asian emerging market economies.
Digital Currencies and Energy Consumption
The global payment system is estimated to consume 47.3 TWh of energy annually, accounting for roughly 0.2 percent of total global electricity consumption.
Capital Flow Management Measures in the Digital Age: Challenges of Crypto Assets
Globally, the scale of crypto assets remains relatively small at $2–$3 trillion, or about 1 percent of total market value of financial assets.
Behind the Scenes of Central Bank Digital Currency: Emerging Trends, Insights, and Policy Lessons
In late 2021, the Central Bank of The Bahamas recorded around 20,000 active Sand Dollar wallets within a population of about 400,000.
Blockchain Consensus Mechanisms: A Primer for Supervisors
Bitcoin block rewards fell from 12.5 Bitcoins to 6.25 Bitcoins in May 2020.
BigTech in Financial Services: Regulatory Approaches and Architecture
BigTech firms invested over $2 billion in fintech companies in 2020, with Alphabet generating 23 fintech investments alone.
Keeping Pace with Change: Fintech and the Evolution of Commercial Law
Fintech Note 2022/001 provides guidance on modernizing commercial law frameworks to accommodate technological innovation while mitigating legal risks.
Swiss Venture Capital Report 2022
Investments in Swiss start-ups recorded an increase of 44 % in invested capital, reaching 3059 CHF m in 2021.
Global Findex Gender Brief: Women and Financial Inclusion
Worldwide, 78 percent of men have an account, compared to 74 percent of women.
Distributed Ledger Technology Experiments in Payments and Settlements
Central banks in Brazil, Canada, the Euro Area/Japan, Singapore, South Africa, and Thailand have conducted large-value interbank payment DLT experiments.
Swiss Venture Capital Report 2020
In 2019, almost CHF 2.3 billion was invested in 266 Swiss start-ups, representing an 85.5% increase compared with the previous year.
Institutional Arrangements for Fintech Regulation and Supervision
The IMF note examines the institutional frameworks for fintech regulation and supervision across 10 selected jurisdictions.