GEOPOLITICAL FINANCE BRICS Pay and mBridge: The $55 Billion Platform Challenging SWIFT and Dollar Dominance The BRICS bloc is building parallel financial infrastructure designed to reduce dependence on the US dollar and the SWIFT messaging network. With $55 billion already processed through the mBridge
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CENTRAL BANKING India's CBDC Counter-Move: Why the RBI Wants BRICS Nations to Link Digital Currencies As India chairs BRICS+ in 2026, the Reserve Bank of India is advancing a fundamentally different vision for cross-border digital currency settlement. Rather than funneling transactions through a single
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DIGITAL PAYMENTS India's UPI Goes Global: Real Payment Success Rates Across 10 Countries in 2026 India's Unified Payments Interface has become the world's largest real-time payment system. Now, through aggressive diplomatic outreach and technical partnerships, UPI international expansion in 2026 is extending its reach
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Traditional payment rails are buckling under the weight of a digital-first global economy. Tokenized cross-border payments in 2026 offer a faster, cheaper, and more transparent alternative—but the path forward is anything but simple. The End of the SWIFT Monopoly For more than four decades,
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