imf Resources & Insights
Curated resources and insights on imf across payments, fintech infrastructure, standards, regulation, and operational controls.
Research Library (11)
- IMF - BankerToolBench: Evaluating AI Agents in (Apr 2026) — Introduces BankerToolBench, an IMF evaluation framework for testing AI agents on banking tasks, focusing on tool use,...
- IMF Working Paper 25 199 - AI And Digital Transformation — IMF working paper examining how AI is reshaping digital transformation in economic or financial systems, with emphasi...
- IMF WP 25-255 - Taxing Mobile Money: Theory and Evidence — Analyzes the economic rationale and real-world effects of taxing mobile money, combining theory and evidence to asses...
- Sonja Davidovic and Hervé Tourpe - How Agentic AI Will Reshape Payments; IMF Note No. 2026-004; April 2026 — IMF analysis argues that agentic AI could materially change payments by automating decision-making, orchestration, an...
- FTN008 - Evaluating the Implications of CBDC for Financial Stability — Analyzes how central bank digital currencies could affect financial stability through changes in bank funding, deposi...
- IMF - NOTE- 2026 -001 Tokenized Finance Tobias Adrian — IMF note by Tobias Adrian examines tokenized finance, outlining how tokenization can reshape money and capital market...
- IMF - Stablecoins and the Future of Payments: Evidence from Financial Markets, WP-26-52, March 2026 (Mar 2026) — IMF working paper assesses how stablecoins are affecting payment markets using financial market evidence, highlightin...
- IMF FinTech Note 2025-010 - Financial Integrity Implications of Retail CBDCs — Assesses how retail CBDCs could affect financial integrity, focusing on AML, CFT, sanctions screening, privacy, and c...
- IMF Working Paper 26-5 - From Par to Pressure: Liquidity, Redemptions, and Fire Sales with a Systemic Stablecoin (Jan 2026) — IMF working paper modeling how systemic stablecoin redemptions can trigger fire sales and feedback loops, and how des...
- Imf cbdc — IMF analysis of central bank digital currencies, focusing on policy design, monetary and financial stability implicat...
- IMF Working Paper 25-186 - Blockchain Consensus Mechanisms: A Primer for Supervisors — Primer for financial supervisors on blockchain consensus mechanisms, comparing how major designs work and the trade-o...