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Brent McIntosh, US Treasury under secretary for international affairs, joins Mark Sobel to discuss the Treasury’s efforts to manage the international economic and financial dimensions of the crisis and the forthcoming International Monetary Fund-World Bank annual meetings. They also cover key financial challenges facing the international community, such as debt and currency issues. Music: https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music

Real assets and infrastructure are immovable and largely illiquid. They are inherently exposed to many of the long-term risk factors associated with climate change. Kelly Christoudolou, ESG and stewardship manager at Australian Super, as well as Jan Von Mallinckrodt, head of sustainability at Union Investment, join OMFIF’s Brandon Chye to discuss how climate change distinctively

Part 1: Stimulus transmission and the banking sector Jan Bellens, EY’s Global Banking and Capital Markets Leader, joins John Orchard, OMFIF’s CEO, to discuss how commercial banks are coping with Covid-19. They focus on the crisis-related operational and commercial challenges, how the opposing needs of speed and prudence reconciled, how banks are preparing for impairments

From transport systems to water, and sanitation to electricity, infrastructure plays a key role in the economy, environment and social development. Seth Tan, executive director of Infrastructure Asia, and Neil Saravanamuttoo, chief economist of the Global Infrastructure Hub, discuss the G20’s infrastructure agenda and how to promote sustainable, inclusive and resilient infrastructure globally. Music: https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music

Artificial intelligence and machine learning are playing an increasingly important role in everyday life and across different economic activities. From day-to-day operations and the real economy, to financial services and economic stability, regulators, policy-makers and economic actors must consider a multiplicity of factors to adjust to a changing economy. Patrick Harker, president and chief executive

In times of crisis, fiscal policy plays a crucial role to stabilise financial markets and help effectively distribute resources across the economy. Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, joins OMFIF’s Mark Sobel for a discussion on US fiscal policy, economic challenges and the long-term effects of policy decisions into the

Alberto Musalem, former executive vice-president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and chief executive officer of Evince Asset Management, joins Mark Sobel, US chairman of OMFIF, to discuss September’s Federal Open Market Committee meeting. They cover the Fed’s economic projections, the impact of the Fed’s strategic review on its operational framework, the need

Neil Macdonald, head of the Wealth and Asset Management Centre of Excellence at KPMG, and Amar Gill, APAC head of investment stewardship at Blackrock, join OMFIF’s Brandon Chye to talk about the changing nature of asset management. They discuss how investors are rethinking their focus across sustainability and stewardship in the face of Covid-19, ultra-loose

In recent months, unresolved trade issues and the Covid-19 pandemic have resulted in heightened tensions between the US and China. James McGregor, chairman of APCO Worldwide and a former chairman of the American Chamber of Commerce in China, and Andy Rothman, investment strategist at Matthews Asia, discuss economic and political developments in US-China relations, their

All eyes are on Japan following Prime Minister Shinzō Abe’s abrupt resignation. The departing leader is known for his aggressive economic reform policy, Abenomics, which helped pull the country out of a decades-long deflationary slump. Jun Saito, senior research fellow at the Japanese Centre for Economic Research, and Kotaro Tamura, adjunct professor at the Lee Kuan