On Demand (Podcasts)

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 […]

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

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

Jonathan Dharmapalan, founder and chief executive of eCurrency, and Teunis Brosens, lead economist for digital finance at ING Group, join Bhavin Patel, senior economist and head of fintech research at OMFIF, to discuss the future of central bank digital currencies. They cover the difference between currency and payment systems, the motivation and use case for

John Plender, non-executive director at OMFIF and a columnist at the Financial Times, joins Rein de Loor, programmes manager at OMFIF. They discuss the Federal Reserve’s outlook for monetary policy and the US economy, reserves management and global affairs affecting the financial system.

Professor Hockett, Thorvald Grung Moe, and Pierre Ortlieb continue their discussion in this second portion of our two-part MMT podcast, homing in on some of the more practical aspects of the MMT framework. They discuss the tools used to tackle inflation, the role of central banks and the job guarantee in MMT, and the urgency

Mark Sobel, US chairman of OMFIF, speaks with Richard Berner, Executive in Residence & Adjunct Professor, NYU Stern School of Business and former director at the office of financial research US Treasury. They discuss financial stability and the issue of data: including the standardisation of data, better data transparency, and continued monitoring.

Robert Hockett, Cornell Law School professor and Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign adviser, and Thorvald Grung Moe, former special adviser at Norges Bank and research associate at the Levy Institute, join Pierre Ortlieb, economist at OMFIF, in the first segment of a two-part podcast on modern monetary theory. This portion of the conversation looks at the

Volker Wieland, managing director of the Frankfurt-based Institute for Monetary and Financial Stability and member of the German Council of Economic Experts, joins Marcin Stepan, deputy head of meetings at OMFIF. They discuss the key questions ahead of the European Central Bank monetary policy meeting on 24 January, which takes place against a backdrop of

Robert Dohner, senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, and David Loevinger, managing director of emerging markets at TCW Group, join Pierre Ortlieb, economist at OMFIF, to discuss the renminbi as an international reserve currency. Topics include where the demand for internationalisation is coming from, the currency’s role in the liberalisation of capital accounts, and challenges