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Smile! You’re a deepfake

April 4, 2024 Comments are Disabled

Digital payment technology has made it faster, cheaper and easier to move money. But it’s also proved a goldmine for scammers. In this article we review three recent digital payment […]

Public infrastructures can prevent big tech money grab

January 11, 2022 Comments are Disabled

Public infrastructures such as government identity schemes and payment systems can help address the risk of a big tech takeover of the digital economy, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) […]

Let the bad guys in

November 12, 2020 Comments are Disabled

Amidst the chaotic fallout of the US presidential election, one result at least seemed clear: the half-century-long war on drugs has come to an end. That’s how many observers have […]

WhatsApp gets green light for payments in India

November 6, 2020 Comments are Disabled

Facebook-owned messaging service WhatsApp said that from today it is rolling out a payments option for its 400m users in India. The new feature will enable Indian users of the […]

Coronavirus jumpstarts race for digital ID

May 7, 2020 Comments are Disabled

Digital identity systems promise a way out of the coronavirus slump. But as they have major implications for money systems, politics and democracy, getting them wrong could have disastrous repercussions. […]

How India leapfrogged the West in payments

December 18, 2019 0 comments

Ten years ago, Indians relied largely on cheques to move money around the country, a legacy of the colonial era. Now India operates the most advanced digital payments system in […]