News & commentary
Read the latest financial and monetary policy news and commentary from OMFIF’s in-house analysts and global network of specialists.
Why Europe must stand up to Trump and embrace federalism
More EU integration needed to escape ‘desertification’ of financial markets
Britain’s synthetic CBDC
The UK drops individual stablecoin limits, replacing them with something more structurally interesting
What makes or breaks the digital euro
Europe can build a public digital payment method. What’s more important is whether anyone will use it
China’s digital renminbi is running on two tracks
Who should govern the ledger digital money runs on?
Bank of Finland’s Olli Rehn’s strategic call on interest rates and common debt
Proposals for ECB ‘forward guidance’ and Europe-wide safe asset to boost euro
Gold’s return as monetary collateral
Market infrastructure can’t keep pace with gold remonetisation
Five reasons why embattled Merz will fight on
With no German Andy Burnham in waiting, chancellor unlikely to quit
How to end digital money’s interoperability agony
Central banks already have a minimum viable product they should more forcefully defend
Half of Brazil’s lending revival is the country counting itself
Reading financial integration for a country that is both host and home
Building the bridge between authorities
A pre-committed, transparent and time-bound rulebook for co-operation
What the USMCA non-extension means for North America Â
‘Industries will now have to judge the future in 12-month increments’
Lebanon’s remittance lifeline has new gatekeepers
The promise of disintermediation masks new dependencies
