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
The dollar’s fight for supremacy Read More »
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
Point-of-sale integration: the hidden catalyst to CBDC adoption Read More »
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
Reframing public money: shifting the mindset from spending to investment Read More »
Max Castelli, head of strategy for sovereign institutions at UBS Asset Management, joins Yara Aziz, senior economist at OMFIF, to unpack the global reserve response after 2 April – a date proclaimed by President Donald Trump as Liberation Day. They dive into US policy shifts, the dollar’s evolving role, rising demand for gold and whether
After Liberation Day: gold, rates and currency shifts Read More »
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
The importance of privacy in capital markets Read More »
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
Driving ocean sustainability through finance Read More »
Jonathan Griffiths, senior investment specialist at Capital Group, joins Arunima Sharan, senior economist at OMFIF’s Economic and Monetary Policy Institute, to unpack Capital Group’s 2025 Capital Market Assumptions and explore perspectives for institutional investors navigating an increasingly complex global investment landscape. They discuss themes ranging from opportunities in emerging market, to fixed income strategies and currency outlooks
Navigating long-term investments amid short term volatility Read More »
Instant payments systems are proliferating rapidly, and many central banks are working hard on interlinking them to enable quick, efficient cross-border payments. However, while IPS can provide extremely rapid, low-cost payments, they are not immune to fraud and erroneous payments. Given the speed of settlement, these problems can be even more difficult to resolve than
Combatting fraud in instant payments systems Read More »
Real-world asset tokenisation is accelerating, particularly within private distributed ledger technology platforms like R3’s Corda. But Richard Brown, R3’s chief technology officer, believes that the future of financial market infrastructure lies in the convergence of private networks like Corda and public networks like Ethereum and Solana. He joins Lewis McLellan, editor of OMFIF’s Digital Monetary
Tokenisation: an engine for convergence Read More »
Paul Blustein, author of King Dollar: The Past and Future of the World’s Dominant Currency, joins OMFIF to discuss his latest book and thoughts on why the dollar has been, continues to be and will remain the world’s dominant currency. He discusses why the euro and renminbi are not viable alternatives, whether there is a
Will the dollar remain king? Read More »
