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Reframing public money: shifting the mindset from spending to investment

Economic and Monetary Policy Institute /

Tighter fiscal positions in economies around the world present a challenge for governments, but also an opportunity to rethink public finance. Mark MacDonald, global public finance management leader at EY, and Udaibir Das, visiting professor at the National Council of Applied Economic Research, join Andrea Correa, OMFIF senior economist, to discuss the shift from viewing […]

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After Liberation Day: gold, rates and currency shifts

Economic and Monetary Policy Institute /

Max Castelli, head of strategy for sovereign institutions at UBS Asset Management, joins Yara Aziz, senior economist at OMFIF, to unpack the global reserve response after 2 April – a date proclaimed by President Donald Trump as Liberation Day. They dive into US policy shifts, the dollar’s evolving role, rising demand for gold and whether

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The importance of privacy in capital markets

Digital Monetary Institute /

Zain Saidin, chief executive officer of Tassat, joins editor of OMFIF’s Digital Monetary Institute, Lewis McLellan, to discuss the value of private blockchain networks for regulated finance. The discussion covers how the transparency typical of public blockchains may present trade-offs where counterparties want to know each other but cannot know each other’s trading behaviour. They

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Driving ocean sustainability through finance

Sustainable Policy Institute /

Ahead of the Blue Economy and Finance Forum taking place on 7-8 June 2025, Louise Heaps, Global Lead Sustainable Blue Economy, and Maud Abdelli, Greening Financial Regulation Initiative Lead at the Worldwide Fund for Nature, join OMFIF’s Isabella Frymoyer to explore how financial institutions can advance ocean sustainability. The conversation highlights the key priorities, challenges

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Navigating long-term investments amid short term volatility

Economic and Monetary Policy Institute /

Jonathan Griffiths, senior investment specialist at Capital Group, joins Arunima Sharan, senior economist at OMFIF’s Economic and Monetary Policy Institute, to unpack Capital Group’s 2025 Capital Market Assumptions and explore perspectives for institutional investors navigating an increasingly complex global investment landscape. They discuss themes ranging from opportunities in emerging market, to fixed income strategies and currency outlooks

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Combatting fraud in instant payments systems

Digital Monetary Institute, Economic and Monetary Policy Institute /

Instant payments systems are proliferating rapidly, and many central banks are working hard on interlinking them to enable quick, efficient cross-border payments. However, while IPS can provide extremely rapid, low-cost payments, they are not immune to fraud and erroneous payments. Given the speed of settlement, these problems can be even more difficult to resolve than

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Tokenisation: an engine for convergence

Digital Monetary Institute /

Real-world asset tokenisation is accelerating, particularly within private distributed ledger technology platforms like R3’s Corda. But Richard Brown, R3’s chief technology officer, believes that the future of financial market infrastructure lies in the convergence of private networks like Corda and public networks like Ethereum and Solana. He joins Lewis McLellan, editor of OMFIF’s Digital Monetary

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CBDC plans energised by stablecoin momentum

Digital Monetary Institute /

OMFIF’s 2024 survey of central banks found that, while three-quarters of respondents are continuing their plans to issue central bank digital currencies, one-third have delayed their timelines. However, this was before the change in US government and the decision not to pursue CBDCs, instead prioritising digital assets. A follow-up OMFIF survey revealed that this development has

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Trade, investment and their impact on sustainability

Sustainable Policy Institute /

Amelia Santos-Paulino, chief of investment research at United Nations Trade and Development, joins OMFIF to discuss some of the key priorities in sustainability for UNTAD in 2025. She considers the space for trade and investment flows in international climate discussions, particularly in the face of recent elections. She also discusses the critical growth sectors associated

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