Entries for 'Digital Finance'
January 5, 2018
This report-produced in partnership with the Center for Financial Inclusion at Accion (CFI)-examines how insurers are expanding into new markets and r
November 29, 2017
Despite enormous effort and investments from the financial and public sectors to detect and counter money laundering, illicit flows in the financial s
November 13, 2017
The IIF has responded to the European Banking Authority (EBA)'s consultation on "The EBA's approach to fintech". The response stresses that supervisor
November 13, 2017
The IIF has responded to the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision's consultation on "Sound practices: implications of fintech developments for banks
October 27, 2017
The IIF/McKinsey report on "The Future of Risk Management in the Digital Era" has been produced to help organizations navigate a digital risk transfor
October 12, 2017
Prime Minister Modi has focused on advancing digital finance as an important part of his structural reform program since coming to office in May 2014.
October 12, 2017
Insurers are expanding into new markets and reaching underserved customers through new technologies, business models, product designs, a deeper unders
September 7, 2017
Cyber-attacks are growing rapidly in number, scope and sophistication and the financial sector has long been the largest target. This staff paper anal
July 31, 2017
This report-produced in partnership with the Center for Financial Inclusion at Accion (CFI)-examines how partnerships between mainstream financial ins
July 6, 2017
We were in Copenhagen last week meeting with members and hosting an event with Finance Denmark called "The Digital Agenda in Banking". We continue to
April 27, 2017
Financial institutions (FIs) are increasingly looking to deploy machine learning approaches to manage and mine regulatory reporting data and unstructu
April 21, 2017
The next wave of financial technologies is accelerating change in how value is stored and transferred in the economy. Blockchain crypto currencies, ne
March 27, 2017
This report, written in cooperation with the IIF Regtech Working Group, looks at the potential of new technologies to improve anti-money laundering an
January 30, 2017
Modelo Peru is a historic collaborative effort to establish an inclusive national digital payments platform-Billetera Movil (Bim)-the first of its kin
January 25, 2017
With the launch of the National Financial Inclusion Strategy (NFIS) in 2012, Nigeria, a signatory of the Maya Declaration, took a first step in suppor
November 8, 2016
Mid-sized banks (MSBs), which we define for the purposes of this paper as those with total assets between approximately $100 - $500 billion, face nume
October 27, 2016
Government initiatives have been launched to promote financial inclusion, namely to support wage payments through the banking system and to require ba
September 30, 2016
Our recent report, Innovation in Insurance, documented technology-driven changes underway in the insurance industry. One exciting implication of these
September 23, 2016
The banking sector has remained a strong pillar of the economy, despite political paralysis and regional turmoil. Financial intermediation in Lebanon
September 21, 2016
A variety of breakthrough technologies are set to spur a fundamental transformation of the insurance industry. Cloud computing, the Internet of Things