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Hong Kong’s future as an international financial centre
Hong Kong’s financial system remains resilient despite geopolitical tensions, social unrest and Covid-19. Eddie Yue, chief executive of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, discusses Hong Kong’s role as a gateway to China, highlighting the stock and bond connect schemes, the greater bay area development and the upcoming wealth management connect.
Analysing July’s FOMC meeting
Following the Federal Open Market Committee’s decision on interest rates and the rate of asset purchase programmes, Donald Kohn, senior fellow of the Brookings Institute and former vice-chairman of the board of governors of the Federal Reserve, joins Mark Sobel, US chairman of OMFIF. They discuss July’s deliberations and the joint Brookings Institute and University of Chicago task force on financial stability report.
Solving offline payments for scalable and interoperable CBDCs
Businesses have been concentrating on, experimenting with and implementing blockchains for various purposes, including to record, track or verify trades. Crunchfish’s Joachim Samuelsson looks at how blockchain could be used by central bank digital currencies, how to solve the problem of offline payments and more
Requirements for a fully functional CBDC
The podcast touches on the privacy concerns associated with central bank digital currencies, on how policy-makers can address these and the challenges of launching a CDBC. It also covers the trade-offs between different design choices and how to build a CBDC that can adapt to future needs.
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How the Bank of Korea got through Covid-19
Seok Jun Yang speaks to OMFIF’s Pierre Ortlieb on macro and market developments about the course of the Covid-19 shock. They discuss how the Bank of Korea managed its reserves in response to the market turmoil of spring 2020, the global fiscal and monetary policy response to the pandemic and how to strengthen the global financial safety net for future crises.
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Payment systems, digital currencies and reform in Israel
With the expansion of fintech, non-traditional players have entered the payments market. Oded Salomy, director of payment systems at the Bank of Israel, discusses the new regulatory landscape, the role of the central bank and how Israel is approaching digital currencies.
