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In 2025, 86.5 per cent of Bulgarians aged 16 to 74 used the internet regularly, while internet banking usage remained significantly lower at 31.1 per cent.
In June 2020, UPI recorded more than 1.34 billion transactions amounting to almost US$35 billion.
At the beginning of 2026, the registry of electronic money systems of the Central Bank of Uzbekistan contained 12 registered systems.
On December 31, 2025, six major state-owned banks announced interest payments on real-name digital yuan wallets at demand deposit rates, establishing the Version 2.0 era effective January 1, 2026.
Stock markets remained calm after the start of the conflict in Iran on February 28, 2026, with the S&P 500 gaining a maximum increase of 7% on May 10, 2026.
Over 90 percent of surveyed central banks are engaged in some form of CBDC work, with more than half involved in experiments or pilot projects.
Unified Payments Interface (UPI) processes more than 18 billion transactions per month in India.
The framework analyzes cross-border retail CBDC payments across 5 core elements: access, communication, currency conversion, compliance, and settlement.
Thirty of the 33 central banks in sub-Saharan Africa responded to the regional survey on digital currencies and payments.
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.
Central banks in Brazil, Canada, the Euro Area/Japan, Singapore, South Africa, and Thailand have conducted large-value interbank payment DLT experiments.
Six out of ten respondents used the mobile payment service Swish during the past month in 2018, compared to around 10 per cent in 2014.
