Per the Financial Conduct Authority, the London inter-bank offered rate is due to be phased out by December 2021. Oonagh McDonald, international financial regulatory expert, author and former Labour party politician joins OMFIF’s Ben Rands to discuss its future. They cover what went wrong with Libor, current issues surrounding its branding, and prospects for replacement.
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In the latest episode of our ‘Ahead of the ECB’ series, Danae Kyriakopoulou, OMFIF chief economist and director of research, is joined by Stefan Gerlach, chief economist at EFG Bank and former deputy governor at the Central Bank of Ireland, and Frederik Ducrozet, senior European economist at Pictet Wealth Management. They discuss the priorities for
Andrew Pilgrim, associate partner at EY, and Mark Boleat, former political leader for the City of London, join OMFIF’s Katie-Ann Wilson, to discuss Brexit and the future of the UK’s financial services. Topics include the preparedness of financial services in the face of a no-deal scenario, what difference a transitional period would make, and the
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Luca Bertalot, secretary general of the European Mortgage Federation-European Covered Bond Council, and Jacek Kubas, principal in the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development’s local currency and capital markets team, join Chris Ostrowski, OMFIF director of memberships and commercial partnerships. They discuss the history and structure of covered bonds, their role in capital markets, main
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In March this year, the Financial Stability Oversight Council proposed amendments to its interpretive guidance on the supervision and regulation of certain non-bank financial companies. Paul Tucker, chair of the Systemic Risk Council, and Amias Moore Gerety, partner at QED, join Mark Sobel, US chairman of OMFIF, to discuss their views on the matter. They
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In this month’s Fed Talk podcast, Stephanie Aaronson, vice-president and director of the economic studies programme at the Brookings Institution and former assistant director of the division of research and statistics at the Federal Reserve Board, and Thomas Costerg, senior economist at Pictet Wealth Management, join OMFIF’s Rein de Loor. They discuss the Federal Open
Wally Adeyemo, senior adviser at BlackRock, joins Mark Sobel, US chairman of OMFIF, to discuss the upcoming G20 meeting. Wally was senior international economic adviser to US President Barack Obama and served as his representative to the G20. This podcast covers the history and purpose of the G20 and whether it has become too diluted,
Jonathan Dharmapalan, founder and chief executive of eCurrency, and Teunis Brosens, lead economist for digital finance at ING Group, join OMFIF’s Bhavin Patel, to discuss the future of central bank digital currencies. In part 2 of this podcast, they cover the different use cases of retail CBDC between advanced and emerging markets, payment systems as
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Bernd Lucke, an outgoing member of the European Parliament for Germany and member of the Liberal Conservatives Reformers, and Iain Begg, professorial research fellow at the London School of Economics and co-director of the Dahrendorf Forum European Institute, join Ellie Groves, programmes manager at OMFIF, to discuss the results of the European Parliament elections. They
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In the latest episode of our ‘Ahead of the ECB’ series, Danae Kyriakopoulou, OMFIF chief economist and director of research, is joined by Ernst Welteke, former president of the Deutsche Bundesbank, and Carsten Brzeski, chief economist at ING Germany, to discuss the European Central Bank’s policy outlook. They consider the results of May’s European Parliament
