In recent years, we’ve seen the emergence of mobile wallets and crypto assets, offered in many cases by entities that fall outside the rubric of traditional prudential regulation. These developments can influence how the financial sector landscape evolves. We must determine if and how to regulate them, and we must develop the capacity to do so.
In Barbados, we envisage that new payments system regulation will seek to address this gap in our regulatory framework. The second is data. More than ever, both the public and private sector rely on accurate, timely, and specific data for analysis and forecasting, and they look to central banks to provide much of 1/5  BIS central bankers' speeches  that data.