The Global Pandemic, Laboratory of the Cashless Economy?

Jeremy Srouji () and Dominique Torre ()
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Jeremy Srouji: International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam, 2518AX The Hague, The Netherlands

IJFS, 2022, vol. 10, issue 4, 1-13

Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound impact on payment systems and preferences around the world, reducing the use of cash in favor of digital payment instruments and accelerating the discussion around the need for a central bank digital currency. This article presents the digital payments and cashless agenda before and after the pandemic, focusing on how the changing payments landscape has influenced the priorities and decisions of regulators, banks and other financial intermediaries, with regards to the future shape of payment systems. It finds that while the pandemic demonstrated the benefits associated with building an advanced, competitive and integrated digital payments eco-system, it has also brought to the forefront more fragmentation than convergence between payment systems in different regions of the world.

Keywords: central bank digital currencies (CBDC); digital payments; mobile money; cashless; payment systems; NFC; e-wallets (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F2 F3 F41 F42 G1 G2 G3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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