Jeff Yost provides an interesting review, from a historian of technology and computing to Brett Scott´s book above entitled. I don’t always agree with Brett´s interpretation of the history of money and perhaps less with his forecasts. For full disclosure, Brett did send an advance copy of the book, which I am still working on. But find Jeff´s take on the book interesting. See the full review here.

Some thoughts on: The Journey of a Remittance in the US-Mexico Corridor: From My Salary to My Family

We were invited to take part in a project around the “frictions” to deploy a central bank digital currency. We looked at why cash predominates at the start and end of the transactions in the third largest corridor by volume.

You can find our full report here

Thanks to that, we were interviewed in a couple of outlets:

Interview, “The multi-billion dollar US-Mexico remittances corridor: what you need to know”, BNAmericas (Chile), (July 1, 2022).

Interview by Bradley Cooper, “How ATMs deliver remittances”, ATMmarketplace (USA), (August 2, 2022). Reprinted by Cash Essentials (Switzerland): (English) and (Spanish) (August 17, 2022).

Photo by Igal Ness on Unsplash

A fuller version of this post has been published in Spanish

Bátiz Lazo, B., & González Correa, I. . (2024). Del telégrafo a la app: la evolución y el estado actual de los prestadores de remesas desde los Estados Unidos hasta México, ca. 1980-2020. El Trimestre Económico, 91(364), 925–970. https://doi.org/10.20430/ete.v91i364.2516

Working paper in English here: https://ideas.repec.org/p/pra/mprapa/114233.html