SDG 8 captures the essence of sustainability as it seeks ‘to promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all.’ In particular, SDG 8 emphasizes the strengthening of the capacity of domestic financial institutions to encourage and expand access to banking, insurance and financial services for all.
Furthermore, with the aim of modernising the  national payment system, by broadening the scope of innovative payments schemes and reducing paper instruments as a means for payment, the Central Bank in collaboration with the Seychelles Banking Association are looking into the possibility of implementing a national payment switch.