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Pakistan Launches Payment System To Boost Financial Inclusion

PYMNTS

Pakistan has debuted a government-run instant digital payment system to help with financial inclusion and government revenue, Reuters reports. This isn't the only digital upgrade Pakistan will be receiving soon, as i2c has been tapped to work on the country's first digital-native super app, PYMNTS writes.

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Bitcoin Daily: Turkey To Test Digital Currency In 2021; Japan Prepares To Issue CBDC; Bitcoin Crests $28,000

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Japan might look into launching its own central bank digital currency (CBDC) in both the public and private sectors, according to a report from Japan Times. Miami Mayor Francis Suarez might want to make his city a hub for crypto at the government level, a report from CoinDesk says.

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Deep Dive: How Digital ID Verification Helps Build Trust in Carsharing and Housesharing Platforms

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The sharing economy — a market projected to be valued at more than $300 billion by 2025 — can adopt a number of different digital identity verification tools to help build that trust, however. . Humans can also train the ML algorithms by tagging IDs with either valid or fraudulent tags, creating a highly sophisticated verification system.

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PodChats for FutureCFO: Why CFOs need to drive ESG initiatives

Future CFO

Environmental, social and governance (ESG) programs can pose unique challenges to finance chiefs charged with maximizing returns. Big price tags and longer timelines. Moyer says digital business is probably a 10-to-20-year transformation. ESG is a 30-to-40-year transformation.

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EACT SURVEY 2021

Simply Treasury

The digitalization of the treasury function, itself part of the modernization of the finance function, was ranked second. Here again, it seems to us that the need to dematerialize, digitize and automate is logical to make companies more resilient and efficient in their financial management. The final question covers the ESG (i.e.,

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Ghana To Adopt West African ‘Eco’ Currency

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Ghana said in October that it was planning to eliminate paper from most services and transactions by next year, as it aims to become Africa’s most digitalized economy. The government has claimed that it will have “electronically tagged” every home, including informal housing in slums, via GPS by early 2020.

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Ghana Government Aims To Achieve Cashless Economy

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Ghana says it plans to eliminate paper from most services and transactions by next year as it aims to become Africa’s most digitalized economy. The government claims that it will have “electronically tagged” every home, including informal housing in slums, via GPS by early 2020. No one can hide.”.