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  "title": "Cross-Border Payments in the Digital Age",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ct/2025/cbpct25-19",
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  "summary": "Back to top Qualifications Participants should have experience in operations, policy, and/or oversight in one or more of the following areas: payments, legal, technology, monetary policy, foreign exchange management, and financial stability.",
  "publishDate": "2025-09-08",
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      "heading": "Training Program Overview",
      "content": "- Session No.: CT 25.19\n- Location: Shenzhen, China\n- Date: November 17-21, 2025 (1 week)\n- Delivery Method: In-person Training\n- Primary Language: English\n- Status: Deadline passed"
    },
    {
      "heading": "Target Audience and Qualifications",
      "content": "- Target Audience:\n  - Mid- to senior-level officials working in the payment, legal, technology, monetary policy, foreign exchange management, and financial stability departments at the central bank and in positions with similar responsibilities.\n- Qualifications:\n  - Participants should have experience in operations, policy, and/or oversight in one or more of the following areas: payments, legal, technology, monetary policy, foreign exchange management, and financial stability."
    },
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      "heading": "Course Description",
      "content": "- Designed based on the G20 Roadmap for Enhancing Cross-border Payments and the IMF-World Bank approach to cross-border payments technical assistance.\n- Interactive format using a combination of:\n  - lectures,\n  - case study simulations,\n  - group or individual presentations,\n  - panel discussions.\n- Lectures explore the evolving landscape of cross-border payments in the digital age and focus on how it could be improved.\n- Analytical focus areas include:\n  - pain points of developing cross-border payments,\n  - regional and international initiatives to address those obstacles in the near term including improving access to payment systems, interlinking fast payment systems, and application of AML/CFT rules,\n  - data frameworks applicable to cross-border payments,\n  - adoption of Legal Entity Identifiers,\n  - initiatives such as central bank digital currencies (CBDC) and crypto assets.\n- Learning approach:\n  - Participants will gain a basic understanding of cross-border payments and the actions underway to address the challenges and apply them in hypothetical case studies."
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      "heading": "Course Objectives",
      "content": "- Upon completion of this course, participants should be able to:\n  - Understand the ongoing reshaping of cross-border payments in the digital age, including the factors driving the development of cross-border payments.\n  - Establish a clear understanding of work underway at regional/ international level to enhance cross-border payments.\n  - Analyze the benefits and risks of digital money use in cross-border payments.\n  - Discuss practical ways of improving cross-border payments to reach the quantitative Roadmap targets."
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