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Deepening financial disparity risks causing massive damage to the world economy and upending incumbent political structures. Already over the last several years we have seen the dangers of inequality reflected in the rise of populism in major economies. Law-makers are drifting further away from the political centre, as they try to appeal to citizens dissatisfied with the status quo.
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A new focus on bilateral relations after Brexit will allow Germany and the UK to share expertise, deepen bonds and provide leadership in international forums. This report describes how across 10 economic areas the two sides can extend widespread co-operation in fields ranging from manufacturing and services to education, gender balance and cybersecurity.
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A decade of unconventional monetary policy has led to uncertainty about central bank investment patterns. This report is a reminder that the core investment assets of central banks stem from the official reserve portfolio. SSGA and OMFIF researchers have computed a range of nominal and relative data bases in examination of many individual reserve managers. The research aims to dispel some of the obscurity about the asset management practices of this traditionally non-transparent group of global public investors.
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Mark Sobel, US chairman of OMFIF, speaks with Amias Gerety, partner at QED and former acting assistant secretary for financial institutions at the US Department of the Treasury. They discuss macroprudential policy in the United States. They focus on the Financial Stability Oversight Council, including its role in the wider economy and its implications for both bank and non-bank actors.
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The OMFIF meetings monthly review provides readers with a recap of the meetings that took place over the past month and provides a sample of the forthcoming meetings in the next six months. The Q1 review covers meetings in Singapore, London and New York. To learn more about OMFIF Meetings and Membership, please email enquiries@omfif.org
Read moreThose who participate in the international political discourse increasingly recognise that trade must become more inclusive. The policy-makers behind the momentous African continental free trade area can learn from integration efforts elsewhere in the world, write Jamie Macleod and David Luke.
China's response to Washington's tariff increase has, to date, been relatively mild, writes Iris Pang. In practice, it is difficult for China to respond with equal measures, since it imports much less from the US than the US does from China. There besides, a mild response means China maintains the moral high ground.
Behind Argentina, Turkey has the dubious distinction of having the world's second worst performing currency. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's mishandling of his country's currency crisis heightens substantially the probability that Turkey will soon default on its external debt, writes Desmond Lachman.
Patricia Haas Cleveland, a New York banker with wide public and private sector experience, has become president of OMFIF's operations for North America. Melbourne-based Mark Burgess, former managing director of the Australian Future Fund, will become OMFIF's Asia Pacific chairman in July.
Speaking to journalists after the most recent meeting of the FOMC, Fed Chair Powell affirmed his view that the recent dip in inflation was due to 'transitory factors'. He was at pains to dispel the notion gaining ground in markets that the Fed was contemplating a cut in rates, writes Darrell Delamaide.
The campaign mantra it's 'the economy, stupid', first coined in 1992 by President Bill Clinton's strategist, James Carville, is still critically important in US electoral politics. If the US economy remains strong between now and November 2020, the Democrats will find it hard to unseat President Donald Trump.
The Federal Reserve's review of its 'monetary policy strategy, tools and communication practices' offers an opportunity to examine questions surrounding 'independence', writes Mark Sobel. One of the review's goals should be to win over the public, rather than fascinate markets and high priests of monetary policy.
Luis de Guindos, vice-president of the European Central Bank, rejected 'national champions' in European banking in a wide-ranging OMFIF City Lecture in London. In remarks seen as opposing the now-abandoned link-up between Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank, he said he favoured cross-border mergers.
Roundtable with Steven Maijoor, Chair, European Securities and Markets Authority
Tue 21 May 2019
MAY | London
Roundtable with Martin Flodén, Deputy Governor, Riksbank
Tue 21 May 2019
MAY | London
Roundtable with Yuko Kawai, Chief Representative, Bank of Japan
Tue 28 May 2019
MAY | London
OMFIF-Czech National Bank joint seminar
Wed 29 May 2019
MAY | Prague
Roundtable with Elisabeth Stheeman, Member of the Financial Policy Committee, Bank of England
Wed 29 May 2019
MAY | London
Roundtable with Fabio Natalucci, Deputy Director of the Monetary and Capital Markets Department, International Monetary Fund
Thu 30 May 2019
MAY | New York
The 2018 Absa Africa Financial Markets Index launched in Bali alongside the IMF-World Bank Group meetings. In its second year, the index is a premier indicator of the attractiveness of Africa’s capital markets, for use by investors and asset managers around the world.
The distribution of women across academic fields is uneven, and this segregation appears persistent. Economics is no exception. Despite the increase in the number of female economists over the last few decades, women in economics continue to be underrepresented.
Stock market volatility tends to reach its peak in October, underlined by famous crashes in 1929, 1987 and 2008. Cross-currents in the world economy make this October particularly pivotal, especially in the light of the tug of war between good news out of the US and bad news out of China.
Global growth and inflation figures, in addition to rising commodity prices and interest rates, point to the risk of staglation over the summer months. The geopolitical backdrop, and the threat of a US-China trade war, also has a whiff of stagflation about it.
The world is experiencing one of the longest economic expansions since records began and there's no end in sight, with muted inflationary pressures keeping interest rates low. Stock markets like this not too hot, not too cold 'Goldilocks' backdrop.
This month’s poll focuses on universal basic income. Participants were asked: In recent years, the idea of universal basic income has become an increasingly popular point of discussion as a potential means of improving financial inclusion. How viable a solution is this? If not UBI, how best can policy-makers address widening economic inequality?
