The Rise of Digital Money
The Rise of Digital Money

Author: Mr.Tobias Adrian

Publisher: International Monetary Fund

Published: 2019-07-15

Total Pages: 20

ISBN-13: 1498324908

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This paper marks the launch of a new IMF series, Fintech Notes. Building on years of IMF staff work, it will explore pressing topics in the digital economy and be issued periodically. The series will carry work by IMF staff and will seek to provide insight into the intersection of technology and the global economy. The Rise of Digital Money analyses how technology companies are stepping up competition to large banks and credit card companies. Digital forms of money are increasingly in the wallets of consumers as well as in the minds of policymakers. Cash and bank deposits are battling with so-called e-money, electronically stored monetary value denominated in, and pegged to, a currency like the euro or the dollar. This paper identifies the benefits and risks and highlights regulatory issues that are likely to emerge with a broader adoption of stablecoins. The paper also highlights the risks associated with e-money: potential creation of new monopolies; threats to weaker currencies; concerns about consumer protection and financial stability; and the risk of fostering illegal activities, among others.

The Future of Money
The Future of Money

Author: Eswar S. Prasad

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2021-09-28

Total Pages: 497

ISBN-13: 0674258444

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A cutting-edge look at how accelerating financial change, from the end of cash to the rise of cryptocurrencies, will transform economies for better and worse. We think weÕve seen financial innovation. We bank from laptops and buy coffee with the wave of a phone. But these are minor miracles compared with the dizzying experiments now underway around the globe, as businesses and governments alike embrace the possibilities of new financial technologies. As Eswar Prasad explains, the world of finance is at the threshold of major disruption that will affect corporations, bankers, states, and indeed all of us. The transformation of money will fundamentally rewrite how ordinary people live. Above all, Prasad foresees the end of physical cash. The driving force wonÕt be phones or credit cards but rather central banks, spurred by the emergence of cryptocurrencies to develop their own, more stable digital currencies. Meanwhile, cryptocurrencies themselves will evolve unpredictably as global corporations like Facebook and Amazon join the game. The changes will be accompanied by snowballing innovations that are reshaping finance and have already begun to revolutionize how we invest, trade, insure, and manage risk. Prasad shows how these and other changes will redefine the very concept of money, unbundling its traditional functions as a unit of account, medium of exchange, and store of value. The promise lies in greater efficiency and flexibility, increased sensitivity to the needs of diverse consumers, and improved market access for the unbanked. The risk is instability, lack of accountability, and erosion of privacy. A lucid, visionary work, The Future of Money shows how to maximize the best and guard against the worst of what is to come.

The Rise of Public and Private Digital Money
The Rise of Public and Private Digital Money

Author: International Monetary Fund

Publisher: International Monetary Fund

Published: 2021-07-29

Total Pages: 33

ISBN-13: 1513592033

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Following the companion paper on the new policy challenges related to the adoption of digital forms of money, this paper presents an operational strategy for the IMF to continue delivering on its mandate of ensuring domestic and international financial and economic stability. The paper begins by summarizing the forces driving the adoption of digital forms of money, and the new policy questions that emerge. It then focusses on how the IMF’s core activities and output will need to evolve, including surveillance, capacity development, and analytical foundations. It ends by discusses how the IMF intends to partner with other organization, and to grow and structure internal resources to fulfill this vision.

E-Money: Prudential Supervision, Oversight, and User Protection
E-Money: Prudential Supervision, Oversight, and User Protection

Author: Mr. Marc C Dobler

Publisher: International Monetary Fund

Published: 2021-12-14

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 1513593404

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This departmental paper discusses the evolving prudential frameworks for nonbank issuers of electronic money. Some jurisdictions take a relatively light-touch approach to regulating electronic money issuers (EMIs). Others have sought to apply more stringent requirements to protect electronic money (e-money) users, as the sector has grown in importance. The paper aims to build on previous IMF staff contributions to the literature and to draw policy conclusions for strengthening e-money regulatory regimes; in particular in jurisdictions where issuers, individually or collectively, have grown to a size to which they are of macro-financial importance (see below). Chapter 2 provides background on the development of e-money, its economic benefits, and potential risks. Chapter 3 discusses prudential supervision of EMIs, followed in Chapter 4 by their oversight from a payments system perspective. Chapter 5 discusses potential additional measures for user protection and contingency arrangements for EMI failure. The last chapter presents policy recommendations for policymakers, especially in those emerging market economies and developing countries wherein EMIs have reached a scale at which they could have a significant economic impact if they were to fail.

Electronic Value Exchange
Electronic Value Exchange

Author: David L. Stearns

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2011-01-04

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13: 1849961395

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Electronic Value Exchange examines in detail the transformation of the VISA electronic payment system from a collection of non-integrated, localized, paper-based bank credit card programs into the cooperative, global, electronic value exchange network it is today. Topics and features: provides a history of the VISA system from the mid-1960s to the early 1980s; presents a historical narrative based on research gathered from personal documents and interviews with key actors; investigates, for the first time, both the technological and social infrastructures necessary for the VISA system to operate; supplies a detailed case study, highlighting the mutual shaping of technology and social relations, and the influence that earlier information processing practices have on the way firms adopt computers and telecommunications; examines how “gateways” in transactional networks can reinforce or undermine established social boundaries, and reviews the establishment of trust in new payment devices.

Electric Money
Electric Money

Author: Dennis W. Richardson

Publisher: Cambridge : MIT Press

Published: 1970

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13:

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"Money," at least in its present form, may be on the verge of obsolescence. Rapid advances in computer technology are revolutionizing the American banking system. The credit boom and the proliferation of credit cards signal the advent of a cashless and checkless society. This exploratory treatise on payment media develops, within the framework of the historical evolution of exchange in general and of financial concepts and and institutions uniquely American, the far-reaching implications of a computerized monetary system for all sectors of the economy. The author introduces a theoretical model of a "moneyless" society and a hypothetical description of electronic funds transference as it might evolve within "real world" constraints. By virtue of its central position in the payment process and its cost-saving computer capabilities, the commercial bank of the future will logically extend its role in the financial community with multiple new services. Technical change will remain the most potent factor in this business environment. Aggressive bankers, implementing and actively marketing the latest developments, will occupy the vanguard of the movement.

Carl Menger and the Evolution of Payments Systems
Carl Menger and the Evolution of Payments Systems

Author: Michael Latzer

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13:

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First published in 1892, Carl Menger's article "Geld" ("Money") has been extremely influential on the thinking of today's neoclassical and New Institutionalist economic theorists, argue Latzer and Schmitz (both of the Research Unit for Institutional Change and European Integration at the Austrian Academy of Sciences). They present the first full English translation of the article (occupying nearly half the volume) alongside commentary by current theorists on the article's continuing relevance to theories about the origins and the future of money. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Computer Money
Computer Money

Author: Andreas Furche

Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Pub

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 108

ISBN-13: 9783920993546

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New electronic payment mechanisms together with an emerging global information economy on the Internet are set to change the way we do business. In the centre of all these developments are new electronic payment mechanisms, the financial infrastructure needed to open the electronic marketplace. This book gives a structured overview of these new payment mechanisms by first describing what exactly is possible today, what is currently existing or being developed, and how these systems work. It gives the essential background needed for informed decisions and discussions in the areas of electronic payment systems and electronic commerce.