News & commentary
Read the latest financial and monetary policy news and commentary from OMFIF’s in-house analysts and global network of specialists.
The digital euro has bought a fraud layer that needs a network
Framework agreements leave question open about component that runs without connectivity
How to bring monetary clarity in the face of geoeconomic turmoil
Villeroy de Galhau shares his thoughts on the last decade of central banking
Europe cannot defend itself through the budget alone
Europe has underinvested in the assets and capacity on which its security now depends
From Baku to Antalya: making sustainable finance taxonomies work
COP31 is a platform for advancing the taxonomy agenda
Five scenarios for the French crisis outcome
When ‘whatever it takes’ is not enough: ECB might deploy TPI, but not bail out France
Interest on central bank reserves is neither a tax nor a market price
Monetary control may justify paying the policy rate at the margin but not on every reserve
Holding on to what we’ve got: report from the IMF annual meetings
US, China and France dominated the discussions
Forest finance and the problem of transmission
Redesigning the system to reach the governments managing forests
AI agents behaving badly
What institutions must know and be able to prove should an agent make independent decisions
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
