Can payment systems do more than move money? That question took centre stage as more than 100 financial sector stakeholders gathered in Kigali for the Rwanda Bankers' Association's third Annual ...

ASEAN's drive towards regional economic integration includes developing a cross-border digital payment system for seamless financial transactions and promoting the use of local currencies, aiming to ...

The influential work of Ramey and Ramey (1995) highlighted an empirical relationship that has now come to be regarded as conventional wisdom–that output volatility and growth are negatively correlated ...

After years of framework development, metric definition, and data collection, many investors are increasingly able to anticipate, measure, and manage the social and environmental results of their ...

The CSIS Southeast Asia Program on April 17, 2018, hosted a small, high-level roundtable discussion on U.S.-Southeast Asia Financial and Investment Relations. The first session of the roundtable ...

Most economists would argue that monetary integration leads to financial integration; in other words, when a set of countries has a common currency, as in the European Monetary Union (EMU), for ...

Financial integration is critical for the financial system to reallocate liquidity when individual banks are hit with liquidity shocks. A new paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research shows ...

With growth slowing across much of the Latin America as a result of the end of the commodity supercycle and economic rebalancing in China, as well as fragmentation of the international banking system, ...

The Southern African Development Community (SADC) will hold a Meeting of the Committee of Ministers of Finance and Investment and the Peer Review Panel on 2 July 2026 in Harare, Republic of Zimbabwe ...

Capital Bancorp, Inc. (CBNK) has completed the integration of Integrated Financial Holdings, Inc. (IFH) into its operations, effectively merging customer accounts and products. This follows the merger ...

Precoro, opens new tab, a procurement centralization and automation platform that delivers enterprise-level capabilities to mid-market organizations, today announced an API integration with BILL (NYSE ...

Financial integration in the euro area has improved markedly since late 2022 due to resilient market functioning, according to a report from the European Central Bank (ECB). The latest findings on ...