Why Balancing Asia’s Economies Is an Increasingly Perilous Act as Digitalization Accelerates Policy challenges include the shift in financial intermediation away from traditional banks toward digital finance providers.
Maximizing Fintech's Impact to Achieve Financial Inclusion Achieving financial inclusion through technology-based solutions presents both opportunities and challenges in Sri Lanka’s financial sector.
Designing Policies to Help Small Debtors Affected by COVID-19 Lessons from efforts of the Republic of Korea to help financially vulnerable borrowers before the pandemic can help shape effective measures.
Three Ways to Enhance Digital Financial Services Promoting national digital ID systems, interoperable systems, and cloud-based infrastructures can make digital financial services more efficient.
Building the Infrastructure for Digital Finance during COVID-19 and Beyond Digital connectivity is a public good that can lead to new and sustainable growth areas and facilitate cross-border trade and remittances.
Supporting the Transition to Remote or Contactless Transactions Governments should provide policy and financial support to industries that shift to remote or noncontact transactions to cope with COVID-19.
The Role of Ocean Finance in Transitioning to a Blue Economy in Asia and the Pacific Invest in innovative and bankable projects to support healthy oceans and resilient, sustainable blue economy sectors.
The Cost of Underestimating Cybercrime A cyber-attack could mean global economic losses of between $121 billion and $234 billion and insurance losses of between $27 billion and $40 billion.
Increasing Financial Inclusion through Digital Solutions Digital finance offers the potential to reach underserved groups, but it is vital to first understand the needs of this segment.
The Informal Sector Needs Financial Support Providing a lifeline to workers and businesses most affected by the COVID-19 crisis calls for innovative solutions, such as digital money transfers.