Payment systems
The global network of payment flows
This paper considers a network of cross-border SWIFT message flows where nodes are the countries in which the sending and receiving banks are domiciled. The authors analyze how the payment flows reflect or predict various aspects of the real economies.
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US regulators 'hostile' to digital currencies
EU regulators have yet to consider their approach to currencies such as Bitcoin
