This Technical Assistance Report on Peru focuses on Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) Stakeholder Engagement … stakeholders, including representatives of the banking sector, payment service providers, and the Fintech and technology sector … establish the central bank's role in leading a "baseline product" with market participants. The final set of recommendations …

Years of isolation and continuous conflicts have left Gaza's economic development far behind that of the West Bank. In … 2022, per capita income in Gaza was only a quarter of that in the West Bank, and unemployment and poverty rates were much … in both West Bank and Gaza, restrictions are far more severe for Gaza. As a result of this Gaza blockade and repeated …

banking sector in West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU). The decision to focus on the AML/CFT supervision of the … WAEMU banking sector was based on the remit of the regional authorities; the importance to the regional economy of a well …-integrated and well-functioning banking sector; and the results of money laundering and terrorist financing national risk assessments …

This paper highlights the details of the technical assistance (TA) provided to the Bank of Mongolia (BOM) on central … bank communications. The purpose of the mission was to assist the authorities in enhancing the existing communication … by the BOM was to better understand global trends in central bank communications and what are shaping up as well …

Bank and Gaza has widened over time. Further facilitation of private sector job creation in high-productivity tradable …

For more than a decade, commercial banks in West Bank and Gaza (WBG) have struggled to manage buildups of excess … WBG no longer offer them cash services. The Bank of Israel (BoI) has imposed limits on the amount of shekel coins and … raised the costs to the Palestinian banking system …

German bank profitability is low by international standards. Although German banks rank more favorably in risk … the least profitable in Europe. Several factors affect bank profitability, including a complex tiered industry structure … with barriers to entry and an explicit mandate of a large part of the banking system - cooperative and savings banks - to …

economies, dominated by banks. The total assets of the system amount to 126 percent of GDP. However, bank credit is just over 50 … adults having formal accounts. Non-bank financial institutions and capital markets-especially bond markets-are substantially …