Payments
Researching new financial products: using survey evidence to gain insight into buy now, pay later
The authors investigate early adopters of "buy now, pay later" payments and how the use of this service may effect a person's credit.
Options expiry triggers $4bn liquidity shortfall at NSCC
Second-largest simulated shortfall on record mitigated by extra liquidity deposit and OCC commitment
Cross-currency letters of credit gaining popularity in Asia
Divergent central bank policies see CNH LCs increasingly used to cover USD invoices
Eleven of 14 G-Sib indicators hit all-time highs
Surging complexity marked 2023, tempered by slower gains overall
Functional consistency across retail central bank digital currency and commercial bank money
The authors discuss the ‘digital pound’ and how to ensure that retail CBDCs and commercial bank money have common operational characteristics and offer functional consistency.
Can tax evasion be reduced by fostering cashless payments? A systematic literature review
This paper offers a review of literature on how different payment methods impact tax evasion, finding cash to facilitate tax evasion and digital methods of payment to make evasion more difficult.
Intraday FX swaps could signal new dawn for liquidity management
Seedling market could help banks pre-fund payments in near-real time and reduce HQLA requirements
Consumer credit card payment dynamics over the economic cycle
This papers uses data from 1.8 million credit card accounts to investigate how consumers revolve credit card debt and the impact of this on default risk.
AI, quantum computing and tokenisation set to transform finance – Menon
But significant barriers remain preventing the technologies from unlocking their full potential
Liquidity risk hits five-year high at LCH
Higher settlement obligations at Paris-based RepoClear blamed for €9bn spike
Ice Europe’s liquidity risk at record high in Q4
Estimated largest payment obligation in euros more than double previous quarter’s figure
LCH issued highest cash call in more than five years
Largest same-day payment obligation triples in Q4 2023
Nasdaq liquidity risk jumps 15% on increased settlement flows
Maximum amount owed to CCP by single member in stress scenario rises in Q4
Payment risk: facing the regulators with confidence
As banks continue to struggle with controlling their payments functions, Alex Knight, head of Emea at Baton Systems, explains how institutions can overcome this problem by easily activating payment rules that can be immediately applied across multiple…