Bénédicte Nolens, head of the BIS Innovation Hub Hong Kong, and Xiaochen Zhang, principal manager at Amazon Web Services, join Katie-Ann Wilson, head of policy analysis at the OMFIF Digital Monetary Institute, to explore how the public and private sector are using new technologies to overcome the challenges facing green finance. They discuss the process
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Xinting Jia, ESG investment strategist, APAC, State Street Global Advisors, joins Emma McGarthy, head of OMFIF’s Sustainable Policy Institute, to discuss the methods and tools investors use when integrating environmental, social and governance factors into their investment decisions. With sustainability-related risks increasingly on the agenda, they delve into the metrics and targets that should be
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Wolfram Seidemann, chief executive officer of G+D Currency Technology, joins John Orchard, CEO of OMFIF, for a discussion about the key findings from the joint OMFIF-G+D survey on consumer attitudes to CBDC and what factors are important for CBDCs to be successful. Their conversation also addresses how G+D is providing leading technology in the digital
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Robert Bench, assistant vice president at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, and Aman Cheema, senior vice president and general manager of global real-time payments at FIS, join Patricia Haas Cleveland, US president of OMFIF, to discuss the key findings of the Boston Fed’s recent phase one report on Project Hamilton. They look ahead to
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Gloria Bartoli, professor of public management at the LUISS Guido Carli in Rome, speaks with Taylor Pearce, economist at OMFIF, about debt sustainability and fiscal reform in the European Union. Drawing on her extensive experience in international organisations and the design of international policy and regulatory frameworks, Bartoli provides her view of the debt landscape in
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Domenico Nardelli, treasurer at the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, joins Marcin Stepan, managing director of OMFIF’s Sovereign Debt Institute, to discuss the borrowing landscape in Asia. In the current potentially volatile environment, with risks of raising rates challenging market conditions, they discuss the AIIB’s issuance ambitions and strategies. They reflect on the growth of the
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The West has rolled out tough financial sanctions against Moscow with unprecedented speed, magnitude and multilateral co-operation. This move will not stop Russian tanks, but it will squarely impoverish President Vladimir Putin’s regime. Danny Glaser, global head of jurisdictional services at K2 Integrity and former assistant secretary at the US Treasury overseeing sanctions, and Christopher Smart,
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What impact will the emergence of central bank digital currencies and cryptoassets have on the gold market? John Reade, chief market strategist at the World Gold Council, and Bob Wardrop, director and co-founder of the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance, join David Marsh, OMFIF chairman, to explore this question. They expand on topics emerging from
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Charles Goodhart, emeritus professor of economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science, talks to David Marsh, chairman of OMFIF, about his theses on the effects of demography and immigration, the revival of inflation and the threat to central bank independence. He sees this latter danger as particularly virulent from right-wing governments, including
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Thomas Vellacot, CEO, WWF Switzerland, joins Emma McGarthy, head of OMFIF’s Sustainable Policy Institute, to discuss the role WWF is playing in biodiversity and conservation finance. They discuss how governments and private industries are developing financing solutions to protect and sustainably manage natural resources. They explore solutions to biodiversity financing and risk considerations, as well
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