Vijak Sethaput, senior developer for the Bank of Thailand’s Project Inthanon, and Sky Guo, chief executive officer of Cypherium, join Chris Ostrowski, commercial director at OMFIF, to discuss the Bank of Thailand’s digital currency experiment. They talk about how blockchain can influence CBDC design choices and enable interoperability. Further topics include how a distributed system
DLT and its potential use for CBDC Read More »
Following the launch of the seventh annual Global Public Investor, Stephen Gilmore, chief investment officer of the New Zealand Superannuation Fund, joins Mark Burgess, OMFIF Asia chairman, to discuss long-term approaches to asset ownership, asset allocation and the impact of Covid-19 on portfolios. Music: https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music
Taking the long view: An asset owner’s perspective Read More »
As the Covid-19 pandemic spreads across the US, affecting public health and the economy, the Federal Reserve is holding rates near zero and taking steps to ensure global dollar liquidity. Lewis Alexander, chief economist at Nomura, joins Mark Sobel, US chairman of OMFIF, to discuss the Fed’s policy decision, concerns about the US economy, and the
Fed Talk: Managing the US’ economic downturn Read More »
Liu Xiaoming, Chinese ambassador to the UK, joins David Marsh, OMFIF chairman, to discuss world trading relationships. They focus on the growing tensions between the US and China, the UK’s decision to ban Huawei from its 5G networks, Hong Kong protests, and Taiwan. Read the article, ‘Vexed but unruffled, China eyes long game in Europe’
In conversation with the Ambassador of China to the United Kingdom Read More »
In the second edition of the OMFIF-KPMG Asia podcast series, Jingdong Hua, vice-president and treasurer of the World Bank Group, joins KPMG’s Mina Sekiguchi and OMFIF’s Kat Usita to discuss sustainable infrastructure and the pandemic’s impact on the green transition. What role will infrastructure play in the ‘green recovery’? What are the challenges in the
The OMFIF/KPMG series: Sustainable infrastructure and the green transition Read More »
David Birch, author and adviser on digital currencies, joins Phil Middleton, chairman of the Digital Monetary Institute, to discuss Birch’s book, The Currency Cold War: Cash and Cryptography, Hash Rates and Hegemony. Their far-reaching conversation covers the central bank digital currency landscape, private currencies, and whether crime rates can really be demolished in this new era of digital
Digital currency and the new cold war Read More »
Tom Groom, managing partner for financial services at EY, joins Danae Kyriakopoulou, OMFIF’s chief economist and director of research, to discuss the opportunities and risks to the sustainability agenda from the Covid-19 crisis. They focus on challenges for supervisors balancing priorities for immediate economic relief with the need to ensure a green recovery, the banking
Designing a sustainable recovery Read More »
Wolfram Seidemann, chief executive officer of G+D Currency Technology, joins David Marsh, chairman of OMFIF, to discuss how central bank digital currency has gained traction among public and private sector institutions and if Covid-19 is a motivating factor for central banks to adopt digital currency. They also discuss at the state of blockchain technology, privacy
CBDC is a public good, not a private business case Read More »
Recent events are having far-reaching consequences for the US economy, affecting all parts of society and the outlook of policy-makers and market participants. William Dudley, former president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, joins Mark Sobel for a conversation about the US economy and his outlook on the years ahead. Taimur
In Conversation with Bill Dudley: US economic policy and outlook Read More »
Kurtulus Taskale Diamondopoulos, director of central banks and public policy at the World Gold Council, joins Pierre Ortlieb, economist at OMFIF, to discuss WGC’s annual central bank gold survey in the broader context of gold reserves management amid the coronavirus pandemic. They cover the state of play in global central bank gold holdings, valuation and
Central bank gold reserves before and after the Covid-19 shock Read More »
