In recent years mobile devices have been increasingly used for the transmission of data, including the initiation and receipt of payments. Payments executed include "international remittance transfers" ("IRTs"), which are cross-border, person-to-person payments of a relatively low value. An IRT...

This paper uses transaction-level data from a large discount chain together with zip-code-level explanatory variables to learn about consumer payment choices across size of transaction, location, and time. With three years of data from thousands of stores across the country, we identify...

Research develops the modern theory and methodology of cryptocurrency functioning as an integral part of modern money circulation, and the main directions of cryptocurrency progress as means of legal payment in the Republic of Indonesia. Based on the econometric model of the cryptocurrency main...

A long-standing process to harmonise national rules on the transfer of funds has been underway at European Union level since the nineteen-eighties. This process aims to improve the proper functioning of the internal market for domestic and cross-border payment transactions, and is performed...

Reducing the environmental impact of human activities has become a strategic objective of governments, institutions, companies and individuals. In this paper, we estimate the CO2 equivalent emissions of the TARGET Instant Payment Settlement (TIPS) system and compare it with that of Bitcoin and...