At only two years old, the National Bank of Georgia’s (NBG’s) fintech unit is relatively new, but the central bank’s approach to new technology has meant the deployment of fintech internally and across the financial market has been rapid.

In addition to exploring new methods of instant payment, central bank digital currencies and open banking frameworks, one of the NBG’s founding fintech policies has been its ‘open regulatory approach’, built on the idea that regulation should be adaptive and