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Balancing delivery of public value with fiscal responsibility

Around the world, we’re seeing renewed attention to public debt and fiscal tightening, particularly as debt levels continue to rise in advanced economies. Governments face difficult trade-offs: cut spending on services, delay infrastructure investment or raise taxes. Mauricio Zelaya, partner and national economics leader at EY Canada, and Marie Diron, managing director of sovereign risk

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What’s next for the dollar?

Max Castelli, head of strategy for sovereign institutions at UBS Asset Management, joins Yara Aziz, senior economist at OMFIF, to discuss the future of the dollar in the global financial system. They explore UBS’s latest Reserve Management Survey findings, the dollar’s resilience, the rise of gold, digital currencies and whether any challengers are truly positioned

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How to make public investment work

Today’s tighter fiscal position around the world is pushing governments to find alternatives to finance their current expenditure and public investments, forcing them to think differently about how they fund and deliver essential services. Dean Yates, regional market segment leader in government and health sciences, Oceania, at EY, and Rainer Kattel, deputy director and professor

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How public funds are addressing physical risk

Richard Manley, chief sustainability officer at Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, joins Yara Aziz, senior economist at OMFIF, to discuss the key findings from a jointly published report, ‘Investing in a changing world: How public funds are addressing climate-related physical risks’. They explore the challenges public funds face in managing physical risk and where they

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The dollar’s fight for supremacy

Questions about the long-term viability of the dollar as the world’s supreme transaction and investment currency have been building up for years. But America’s chaotic foreign, economic and trade policies in the six months since Donald Trump returned to the White House have intensified doubts about whether the US currency will stay the course for

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Point-of-sale integration: the hidden catalyst to CBDC adoption

Although it frequently flies under the radar, ensuring central bank digital currencies are able to be used at point-of-sale is vital to their successful adoption. Lars Hupel, chief evangelist for CBDC at Giesecke+Devrient, joins Lewis McLellan, head of content at OMFIF’s Digital Monetary Institute, to discuss integrating CBDCs at point-of-sale, the strategic and economic benefits it

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Reframing public money: shifting the mindset from spending to investment

Tighter fiscal positions in economies around the world present a challenge for governments, but also an opportunity to rethink public finance. Mark MacDonald, global public finance management leader at EY, and Udaibir Das, visiting professor at the National Council of Applied Economic Research, join Andrea Correa, OMFIF senior economist, to discuss the shift from viewing

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The importance of privacy in capital markets

Zain Saidin, chief executive officer of Tassat, joins editor of OMFIF’s Digital Monetary Institute, Lewis McLellan, to discuss the value of private blockchain networks for regulated finance. The discussion covers how the transparency typical of public blockchains may present trade-offs where counterparties want to know each other but cannot know each other’s trading behaviour. They

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Driving ocean sustainability through finance

Ahead of the Blue Economy and Finance Forum taking place on 7-8 June 2025, Louise Heaps, Global Lead Sustainable Blue Economy, and Maud Abdelli, Greening Financial Regulation Initiative Lead at the Worldwide Fund for Nature, join OMFIF’s Isabella Frymoyer to explore how financial institutions can advance ocean sustainability. The conversation highlights the key priorities, challenges

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