IMFBlog2021-05-05T10:30:23-04:00December 17, 2020|
By Arnoud Boot, Peter Hoffmann, Luc Laeven, Lev Ratnovski
The financial industry is undergoing rapid technological change. Traditional banks face competition from online start-ups with no physical branches. Social media and other digital platforms are expanding into payments and credit. […]
IMFBlog2020-12-03T12:45:50-05:00December 2, 2020|
By Cristian Alonso, Siddharth Kothari, and Sidra Rehman
عربي, 中文, Español, Français, 日本語, Português, Русский
New technologies like artificial intelligence, machine learning, robotics, big data, and networks are expected to revolutionize production processes, but they could also have a major impact on developing economies. […]
IMFBlog2020-06-29T09:00:11-04:00June 29, 2020|
COVID-19 and the Great Lockdown triggered a mass migration from analog to digital and highlighted that access to the Internet is crucial for socioeconomic inclusion. […]
IMFBlog2020-02-10T08:30:06-05:00February 10, 2020|
By Carlos Mulas-Granados, Richard Varghese and Vizhdan Boranova
Tired of reading articles about how a robot will take your job? We’ve all heard horror stories that foresee the devastating consequences that automation will have on people’s working lives—yet much less attention has been devoted to what workers actually think. […]
IMFBlog2021-05-13T12:56:13-04:00January 13, 2020|
By David Lipton
عربي, 中文, Español, Français, 日本語, Português, Русский
Last March, Operation Taiex led to the arrest of the gang leader behind the Carbanak and Cobalt malware attacks on over 100 financial institutions worldwide. This law enforcement operation included the Spanish national police, Europol, FBI, the Romanian, Moldovan, Belarusian, and Taiwanese authorities, as well as private cybersecurity companies. Investigators found out that hackers were operating in at least 15 countries.
IMFBlog2021-05-13T13:57:56-04:00December 12, 2019|
By Tobias Adrian and Tommaso Mancini-Griffoli
Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC) is a complex and multidisciplinary topic requiring active analysis and debate. […]
IMFBlog2019-09-30T08:36:17-04:00September 30, 2019|
By Esha Chhabra and Bidisha Das
Thanks to mobile money, any person with a basic phone can now make cash transfers, pay bills, and send money to family members abroad without having a bank account. […]
IMFBlog2019-10-02T12:42:41-04:00September 26, 2019|
By Tobias Adrian and Tommaso Mancini-Griffoli
As privately issued stablecoins continue to encroach on more traditional forms of money—like cash and bank deposits—policymakers will not simply look on from the sidelines. […]
IMFBlog2019-09-24T07:32:21-04:00September 24, 2019|
By Jiaxiong Yao
It is often said that a picture is worth a thousand words. The value of a picture taken from space is a new metric we can use to measure economic growth and activity. […]
IMFBlog2019-09-23T12:31:18-04:00September 23, 2019|
By Yan Carrière-Swallow and Vikram Haksar
Look around the global economy and you’ll see an American company developing the next generation of driverless cars, a Chinese financier extending loans to “mom-and-pop” stores that used to lack access to credit, and researchers at a Swiss pharmaceutical company developing a treatment for a chronic health condition. […]
