All posts tagged "fintech"

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  Global Government Fintech to hold inaugural ‘lab’ in Estonia in June

  Global Government Forum’s sister title Global Government Fintech has announced the launch of the Global Government FinTech Lab – an in-person event to bring together senior public servants exploring the opportunities

  • Posted April 10, 2022
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  Open to possibilities: governments bank on opening up financial services data

  What progress has been made to deliver open banking and open finance across the world? And what role should and could governments play? Ian Hall reports on a Global Government Fintech webinar

  • Posted March 27, 2022
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  White House sets out US government digital assets strategy

  The White House has issued an executive order setting out a national policy for digital assets, including a call to urgently explore the case for a digital dollar. President Joe

  • Posted March 17, 2022
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  Singapore launches GovCash service to replace 500,000 cheques

  A service that will allow 40,000 Singaporeans to directly receive payments from government without needing to cash cheques has been launched to make it easier and quicker for citizens to

  • Posted February 21, 2022
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  Going green: governments look to fintech to help combat climate crisis

  Green finance focuses on allocating capital to projects that protect or enhance the environment, part of the shift towards environmental, social and governance (‘ESG’) investing. Ian Hall reports on a Global

  • Posted February 17, 2022
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  Harnessing fintech in governments’ fight against financial fraud

  Cases of financial fraud skyrocketed worldwide during the COVID-19 pandemic. At a Global Government Fintech webinar, panellists discussed the merits of government use of fintech solutions – including artificial intelligence

  • Posted December 9, 2021
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  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,

  • Posted November 16, 2021
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  Kazakhstan banks on small business digitalisation as engine of accelerated growth

  The Republic of Kazakhstan is about the size of western Europe and stretches from the Caspian Sea in the south west to Russia in the north and China to the

  • Posted August 16, 2021
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  Lithuania showcases regtech prototype amid focus on anti-money laundering efforts

  Lithuania’s central bank, Lietuvos Bankas, showcased a new regulatory technology (regtech) protoype this week that automates reporting procedures, cutting the administrative burden for financial market participants. The prototype – developed

  • Posted February 25, 2021
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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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