By Clément Crucifix (UCLouvain, Belgium) When we think about financial inclusion, we often imagine people going by themselves to financial institutions or directly using payment apps on their phones. We think of access as individual, direct, and unmediated. For people
CBDC Field Research Insights: Frictions to Implement a CBDC – A View from the US-Mexico Family Remittance Corridor
By Bernardo Bátiz-Lazo (Northumbria University and Universidad Anahuac) and Ignacio González Correa (University of California, Davis) In our project, we looked at family remittances between the United States and Mexico, the third-largest remittance corridor worldwide by volume, after China and