News & commentary
Read the latest financial and monetary policy news and commentary from OMFIF’s in-house analysts and global network of specialists.
Can Africa turn stadium spending into economic assets?
Governments need clearer tests for whether investment in sport delivers lasting returns
IMF and exchange rates: a work in progress
Improved analysis but more to do in taking exchange rates seriously
Germany readies cards as France manoeuvres in Lagarde candidature imbroglio
Contradictions and ambiguities: domestic and international factors weighing on field of favourites
BoJ independence reinforces Sanaenomics’ credibility
Takaichi government draws important boundary between policy coordination and political control
The golden shift: how reserve managers are rethinking risk
New OMFIF working group explores gold’s strategic appeal
Putting safe assets back on Europe’s policy table
Increasing European safe asset supply without mutualisation
The triple optimisation challenge of MDB treasury management
‘Success is not measured by the ability to survive a crisis, but to continue financing through it’
Is China prepared to give up control?
When it comes to renminbi internationalisation, watch what China does, not what it says
Where fragmentation bites hardest, growth comes cheapest
Economies most exposed to a splintering world may be best-placed to grow through it
Brazil has become an exporter of banking capital
What’s behind the fundamental change in who holds financial exposure to whom?
How Burnham can avoid Starmer’s fiscal policy mistakes
Fix public finances first, then increase funding for causes
The dollar is unsinkable for the foreseeable future
Central banks face a foreign exchange reserves paradox
How the Bundesbank is navigating a shifting global financial system
Evaluating portfolios against an evolving environment
