News & commentary
Read the latest financial and monetary policy news and commentary from OMFIF’s in-house analysts and global network of specialists.
Annual meetings 2026: preserving sovereignty in a changing world
Diversifying sources of growth and security for resilience
The single market exists on paper, but not yet in practice
Notes on making Europe one banking market
French riots may bring ECB bond-buying closer
Contagion holds the key to possible use of transmission protection instrument
Central banks may soon become boiling frogs
Will they stick with monetary esoterica or speak truth to power?
The IMF’s resources are falling behind the global economy
Analysis of the Fund shows shrinking role and unchanged adequacy
China and the EU are advancing nature-related regulation of banks
Comparing two evolving policy approaches
Africa’s next market decade: from access to absorption
Ten years of measuring how African markets function – the next 10 must measure what they finance
The autonomy economy: can AI in payments be trusted?
Regulators grapple with machine-speed money and AI agents
Building European resilience to ‘America First’
Tests ahead for Merz, Burnham, Meloni and (likely) Le Pen
Africa’s financial markets look ahead to the next decade
The milestone 10th edition of AFMI tracks merit and maturity across Africa
The IMF can see the fire but has no sprinkler system
Writing a cross-border playbook for a recurring warning
The future of financial intermediation with or without the Clarity Act
The bill’s failure to pass ‘should not surprise anyone’
People’s Bank of China exchange rate paper is left wanting
PBoC only scratches the surface on currency undervaluation
Annual meetings 2026: Storms lurk behind resilience
IMF-World Bank Bangkok delegates should be filled with angst
Making the transition resilient in Latin America
The region’s competing priorities: accelerating growth and environmental protection
