The €800bn Next Generation EU fund – set up to help finance Europe’s recovery from the economic damage of the Covid-19 pandemic – has been operating since last June. How is its lending schedule and debt management office-like funding programme going? How has its market-changing green bond programme progressed? Who is buying its bonds? How will it operate […]
Next Generation EU with Siegfried Ruhl: one year later Read More »
Just as economies and financial markets around the world were beginning to recover from the unprecedented Covid-19 shocks, fallout from the war in Ukraine has heightened global financial risk once again. How have the post-2008 financial crisis stability frameworks fared in response to these crises? Pedro Duarte Neves, adviser for the board of directors, Banco de
Financial stability outlook: global and European perspectives Read More »
Though blockchain is now a well-known term, the specific qualities that make it useful are still poorly understood. David Chan, CEO and co-founder of a distributed ledger technology-based programmable money platform called eCora, joins Lewis McLellan, editor of OMFIF’s Digital Monetary Institute. They discuss the properties of modern blockchains and highlight the areas – like
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Lewis McLellan, editor of OMFIF’s Digital Monetary Institute, joined Victoria Cumings, chief legal and regulatory officer at RTGS.global, at the DMI symposium to discuss how the Financial Stability Board’s roadmap for enhancing cross-border payments is driving change in the payments ecosystem. They discussed public and private sector efforts to transform international payments and delved into
Transforming international payments Read More »
‘Walking the tightrope’: How China is balancing geopolitics and economics Read More »
Xiaochen Zhang is principal manager at Amazon Web Services. Prior to AWS, Xiaochen worked with many portfolio companies in launching new offers, entering into new markets and building transformative collaborative initiatives on central bank digital currencies, sustainable development and blockchain. Xiaochen built strong collaborations with government agencies, multinational organisations and financial institutions through work with
How can central banks innovate in the digital age? Read More »
Sherry Madera, senior vice president, public policy and government affairs at Mastercard and co-chair of the Future of Sustainable Data Alliance, Matthew Blake, head of financial and monetary system initiatives at the World Economic Forum, and Haleh Nazeri, platform curator, financial services, WEF, join Emma McGarthy, head of OMFIF’s Sustainable Policy Institute. They explore the
Developing ESG talent in financial markets Read More »
At the global Digital Monetary Institute symposium, ‘Central banks and digital currencies’, Philip Middleton, DMI chairman, spoke with Ashley Alder, chief executive officer of the Securities and Futures Commission, and vice chairman of the board of the International Organization of Securities Commissions. Exploring the regulation of cryptoassets, they discussed the need to balance innovation in
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Øystein Olsen, governor of Norges Bank for 11 years up to 28 February, speaks to David Marsh, OMFIF chairman, about the lessons he has learned over four decades in public service, including in helping to steer the world’s largest sovereign fund. Olsen, a veteran energy economist and formerly Norway’s statistics supremo, has become a member of
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Andrew Sentance, former member of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee, speaks to Neil Williams, OMFIF’s chief economist, on the 25th anniversary of the MPC. With the committee a ‘quarter century not out’, Sentance shares his experience of being one of the more outspoken members. While covering the MPC’s numerous runs scored since 1997,
Looking back on 25 years of the MPC Read More »
