Swiss expect digital corporate bonds before year’s end, Time to reform the prudential carve-out, and more
THE WEEKEND REVIEW – OMFIF
Latest opinion and analysis from OMFIF around the world
26-30 April 2021, Vol.12 Ed.17
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Swiss expect digital corporate bonds before year’s end: Tim Grant, head of business at SIX Digital Exchange, is a strong believer in the potential of distributed ledger technology to transform financial services. Alongside Thomas Moser, alternate member of the governing board of the Swiss National Bank, Grant provided OMFIF’s DMI Symposium last week with a timely update on Project Helvetia. He is hopeful that by 2023 the trading of tokenised assets in central bank money on DLT will be a reality, writes Philip Moore. Read more.
| Commentary Time to reform the prudential carve-out: The economic cost of the prudential carve-out in financial services trade is rising in an increasingly fragmented world, where capital markets risk becoming embroiled in the fight for geostrategic dominance. It is time to reform the carve-out, narrow its scope and make it challengeable at the WTO, writes Martina Garcia. Read more. Video IMF’s World Economic Outlook update: Lockdown measures and continued uncertainty about the return to work are having a serious impact on how to forecast future growth. Petya Koeva Brooks, deputy director in the IMF’s strategy, policy, and review department, discusses the baseline scenario in the World Economic Outlook and ways forward for the global economy. Watch. |
Podcast Designing a financial system that responds to the climate threat: Margaret Kuhlow, finance practice leader at WWF, joins Emma McGarthy, programmes manager of OMFIF’s Sustainable Policy Institute, to discuss how finance can be a powerful tool for addressing climate change and how financial flows can be directed to meet the Paris agreement objectives. Listen. Commentary Why Boris Johnson needs a new home: While President Joe Biden is trying to fix America, Britain appears to be worrying about how Prime Minister Boris Johnson fixed his wallpaper. Whatever comes out in the inquiry as to who paid for what, we need to have a serious rethink about finding the British prime minister decent accommodation, writes Meghnad Desai. Read more. |
