digital economy
Digital Economy
BaridiMob and Edahabia Beat the Banks: Why Postal Rails Dominate Algeria’s Digital Payments Mix
⚡ Key Takeaways New CERIST-indexed research confirms BaridiMob and Edahabia dominate Algeria’s digital payment volume and value, ahead of CIB...
Digital Economy
Yassir Market at Bab Ezzouar: Inside the Ramadan 2026 Reopening of Algeria’s First Super-App-Owned Hypermarket
⚡ Key Takeaways Yassir’s rebranded former-Uno hypermarket reopened at Bab Ezzouar during Ramadan 2026, becoming Algeria’s first super-app-owned physical store....
Digital Economy
BIS April 2026 Warning: Five Risk Categories Behind the USDT and USDC Expansion
⚡ Key Takeaways On 20 April 2026, the Bank for International Settlements named five systemic risk categories behind dollar-stablecoin expansion...
Digital Economy
When Wallets Become Government Rails: GCash, Fuel Subsidies, and the Public-Distribution Playbook
⚡ Key Takeaways At CNBC CONVERGE LIVE on 22 April 2026 in Singapore, Mynt CEO Martha Sazon described how GCash...
Digital Economy
UK FinTech Week 2026: The Scale-Up Unit and the Digital Payments Reform Package
⚡ Key Takeaways On 21 April 2026, during UK FinTech Week, HM Treasury and the FCA unveiled four interlocking moves:...
Digital Economy
Merchant Acceptance: The Last Mile of Cashless Economies
⚡ Key Takeaways World Bank 2026 work pinpoints merchant acceptance and identity-trust as the binding constraints on cashless economies. In...
Digital Economy
Digital Payments: The New Credit Infrastructure for Firms
⚡ Key Takeaways A March 2026 World Bank study covering nearly 50,000 firms across 101 economies finds that businesses receiving...
Digital Economy
Stablecoins and Payments: The Competition Shock Is Here
⚡ Key Takeaways The IMF Working Paper 2026/052, published March 20, 2026, estimates that pro-stablecoin U.S. legislation reduced the market...
Digital Economy
Digital Remittances to Algeria: Why Wallet Corridors Could Reshape $1.86B in Inflows
⚡ Key Takeaways Algeria received roughly $1.86 billion in formal diaspora remittances in 2024, with informal flows adding significantly on...
Digital Economy
Yassir’s Payment Institution Bid: Super-App Finance Comes to Algeria in 2026
⚡ Key Takeaways Yassir is pursuing payment-institution authorization under Algeria’s Fintech Strategy 2024-2030, a licence that would allow its 8-million-user...
Digital Economy
BaridiMob and CCP Business Cashless: The SME Retail Checkout Playbook for 2026
⚡ Key Takeaways Algerie Poste launched CCP Business Cashless on 5 March 2026, giving Algerian SMEs a digital commercial account...
