All posts tagged "digital payments"

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  Trump orders end of US government cheques in digital disbursements overhaul

  US president Donald Trump has signed executive orders to “modernise how the government handles money” and centralise a “fragmented” federal disbursements bureaucracy to tackle fraud. The first executive order mandates

  • Posted March 31, 2025
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  Digital benefit payments: Embracing the future with a human touch

  One of the most important roles of governments is to provide benefits payments for their most vulnerable citizens. A recent Global Government Forum webinar with knowledge partner Visa looked at

  • Posted July 31, 2024
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  Interview: why e-payments are a ‘game changer’ for digital public services in Italy

  PagoPA is best known in Italy for its payments platform but the state-owned organisation also plays a wider role in driving digital public services. CEO Alessandro Moricca speaks to Ian

  • Posted March 5, 2024
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  Digitalization of public procurement and government commercial payments

  Public procurement is a vital part of any nation’s economy, serving key policy goals and representing around 13% to 20% of GDP on average.* Because of its scale and strategic

  • Posted November 23, 2023
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  Reset, Rebuild, Recover – leveraging digital technologies to respond to the social and economic impact of COVID-19

  Across the world, the economic stimulus response to COVID-19 far outsize those to the 2008 financial crisis – 33 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) versus 3.5 percent of GDP

  • Posted January 11, 2021
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  HMRC explores the potential of open banking to ‘streamline’ tax

  The UK’s HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) is investigating how it can use small businesses’ and self-employed individuals’ real-time financial transaction data, obtained with their permission through open banking, to

  • Posted December 16, 2020
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  Singapore grants non-banks access to e-payments infrastructure

  Singapore’s central bank is opening up its retail payments infrastructure to non-banks from February 2021 to simplify e-payments for consumers and businesses. The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) announced on Monday that

  • Posted December 3, 2020
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  Tallinn tales: Estonia’s role in developing the digital euro

  Rainer Olt is leading research on digital currency technology for Estonia’s central bank. In an interview with Ian Hall, he talks blockchain, privacy and instant payments Estonia boasts a well-forged reputation

  • Posted November 26, 2020
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  Face the challenge: Singapore’s solution to digital ID verification

  Facial verification technology is quietly gaining ground for digital identity management and authentication. Device-based face verification, such Apple FaceID or Google Face Unlock, are being used by millions of consumers

  • Posted November 19, 2020
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  Brazil central bank launches instant payments system ‘Pix’

  Brazil’s central bank launched a state-run instant payments platform this week for citizens, the private sector and government entities. The scheme, known as Pix, is part of Agenda BC#, which

  • Posted November 19, 2020
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