Discourse on the rewiring of payments and financial markets was dominated in 2024 by talk of unified ledgers. The technical promises and challenges this architecture entails are gradually becoming better understood, but before the prototypes can become reality, the legal challenges must be fully explored. Natalie Lewis, partner at Travers Smith, joins Lewis McLellan, editor […]
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Wendy Teleki, head of the Women Entrepreneurs Finance Initiative at the World Bank, joins Arunima Sharan, senior economist at OMFIF’s Economic and Monetary Policy Institute, to discuss how the WE Finance Code is tackling the $1.7tn financing gap facing women entrepreneurs. They explore We-Fi’s work across 80 countries and examine how supporting women-led businesses creates
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Dominik Talebi, managing director of Global Trade Finance, joins Lewis McLellan, editor of OMFIF’s Digital Monetary Institute, to discuss the new economic paradigm that tokenisation is already beginning to offer. Tokenisation is frequently discussed as a means of improving the efficiency of existing financial markets, but the technology may offer the chance to create entirely
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Yara Aziz, economist at OMFIF’s Economic and Monetary Policy Institute, speaks with Ashleigh Lee, co-lead secretariat of the City of London Corporation’s Transition Finance Market Review, to discuss the findings of the Transition Finance Market Review report. They explore the challenges and opportunities in scaling transition finance, strategies to prevent greenwashing and the global collaboration
From plans to impactful strategies transforming transition finance Read More »
Mark Sobel, US chair of OMFIF, speaks with Max Castelli, head of strategy, sovereign institutions at UBS Asset Management, on the role of the dollar and the various dedollarisation scenarios. They discuss the significance of Saudi Arabia’s decision to join the mBridge multi-currency central bank digital currency platform and the potential implications for the incumbent
From petrodollar to petroyuan? Read More »
Flavio Carpenzano, investment director, fixed income at Capital Group, joins Burhan Khadbai, head of content for OMFIF’s Sovereign Debt Institute, to look back at the performance of the investment-grade credit market in 2024 and at the outlook for next year. They discuss how credit spreads are continuing to compress despite elevated levels of supply and
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Bitcoin’s price has surged following Donald Trump’s victory in the US election. Trump’s campaign was calculated to appeal to the crypto world, so the move comes as no surprise, but what policy changes can we expect and do they warrant this kind of explosive price action? To discuss these questions, Lewis McLellan, editor of
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A report by OMFIF and EY on the future of public money outlines the need for governments to embrace new ideas, frameworks and technology. Mark MacDonald, global public finance management leader at EY, and Joachim Schwerin, principal economist, DG GROW at the European Commission, join Nikhil Sanghani, managing director, Economic and Monetary Policy Institute at
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Anne Simpson, global head of sustainability at Franklin Templeton, joins Emma McGarthy, head of OMFIF’s Sustainable Policy Institute, to assess the role of public pension and sovereign funds in transition finance. They also discuss the work of the Transition Finance Working Group, which has spoken with 12 of the biggest funds on their transition strategies
Transitioning global public funds: strategies, barriers and opportunities Read More »
2024 has seen exciting developments in the wholesale central bank digital currency space. Abbas Albasha, senior strategy consultant for CBDC at Giesecke+Devrient, joins Lewis McLellan, OMFIF’s Digital Monetary Institute editor, to discuss the value that wholesale CBDC can offer economies, how they can integrate with other forms of money including retail CBDC and some of
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