Mir cards, established by the Central Bank of Russia, will be used in Myanmar as part of the military junta’s efforts to stabilise the kyat.
September 13, 2023Compliance requires effective a management information system that enables independent validation and periodic independent review of reporting processes and procedures.
March 7, 2022Restrictions prohibiting Diners Club from onboarding new domestic customers have been lifted. Similar restrictions are still in place for Amex and Mastercard.
November 14, 2021Users of NPCI's BHIM mobile app will be able to make UPI QR-based payments at merchants progressively across north and southeast Asia from early 2022.
September 17, 2021The PayNow-UPI linkage will be implemented in July 2022, enabling faster and lower cost fund transfers between Singapore and India.
September 15, 2021Under the framework, 16 banks and payment service providers will be required to adopt open API systems by June 2022.
August 27, 2021Visa is the only foreign card network that complies with requirements for financial data on Indian customers to be stored locally, the RBI says.
August 19, 2021The full commercial launch will take place in Q1 2022. Indonesia has separately also launched a national open API payment standard.
August 18, 2021A new report from CPMI, BIS Innovation Hub, the IMF and the World Bank highlights the need for multilateral collaboration and interoperability between CBDCs.
July 13, 2021The central bank is assessing which platform and technology it will use to issue a digital rupiah as a legal digital payment instrument in Indonesia.
May 27, 2021