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Treasury’s Direct Express card program saves Americans millions

By Andrew GillenMastercard A few months ago, the Social Security Administration announced that benefit recipients would receive an 8.7 percent cost of living adjustment (COLA) in 2023, the largest COLA […]

Digitising Europe’s economies through Digital Country Partnerships

Governments across Europe have bold aspirations when it comes to harnessing technology to advance the digital transformation of their economies. The EU’s Digital Decade policy programme aims to equip 80% of the […]

Mastercard Economics Institute’s Outlook for 2023: What the data shows about our ‘multi-speed’ future

While 2022 was a story of transitions – 2023 will be a story of outcomes. High interest rates and high inflation will result in a global economy moving at multi-speeds: […]
A screenshot of the Istanbul Senin super app

Delivering choice and making citizens’ lives easier: the expanding opportunity for digital citizen pay

From facilitating ‘thank you’ payments to Minnesota’s frontline workers in the pandemic to the development of mobile apps enabling Istanbul residents to pay for services and transit, technology is changing […]

Identifying the missing pieces in crypto’s regulatory puzzle

Is the financial activity in the crypto asset ecosystem really all that new? That depends on where the focus lies, and governments’ approaches to regulation will need to respond accordingly.  […]

Economic Outlook 2022: What the data says about the risks and responses needed to capture emerging opportunities

For nearly two years, the pandemic has obscured the global outlook, making traditional long-term economic planning for governments challenging. While a vaccine-led vision for re-emerging formed intermittently across the world, […]

Governments look to fintech revolution to drive financial inclusion

Digital advances are providing governments with unprecedented opportunities to improve rates of financial inclusion through fintech-driven programmes and solutions. This was the view of senior state authority representatives from Colombia, […]

Built for all: A global framework for building inclusive economies

The pandemic presents the opportunity to build a better future that supports inclusive growth, sustained prosperity, equal participation, and responsible stewardship. It’s been over eighteen months since people around the […]

Panama Takes Action to Drive a Digitally Inclusive Recovery

Today, the Government of Panama has announced that it will join a growing group of nations in taking a strategic approach to digitization, launching a Digital Country Partnership in cooperation […]

Digital acceleration opens new possibilities for government payments and data

Covid-19 has led to an acceleration towards technology-driven public service delivery, with digitally-driven fiscal stimulus and social security schemes creating data-sets that are likely to have a crucial role in […]