Report: Covid-19 and the transition to a cashless society in Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia | Financial Services

Covid Response Report

Saudi Arabia’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic has been aided by solid fundamentals, proactive containment and mitigation policies, and an increasingly vibrant digital economy. While exploring the holistic response of policymakers to the challenges, this latest report also focuses on how the national payment infrastructure was able to support a rapid shift towards digital payments, and looks at whether the transition towards a cashless society has been accelerated.

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