Most read 2022: Equivalency pivotal issue in debate over future of central bank money, Despite crypto crash, financial institutions are cautiously wading into digital assets, and more

Most read 2022: Inverted yield curve does not prove US recession imminent By Julian Jacobs

This article, one of OMFIF’s most read in 2022, was first published on 5 May.
In March, the yield on two-year US Treasury bonds exceeded the yield on 10-year bonds. This inauspicious signal — one that has preceded seven of the past eight recessions — has had economists, policy wonks and investors gawking at the prospect of a future economic downturn, amid an already-unsettling period of inflation and political tumult. The response from the Federal Reserve has so far been ‘not so fast’.

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Despite crypto crash, financial institutions are cautiously wading into digital assets By Julian Jacobs This year will be remembered as one of reckoning for digital assets. Yet, this is an opportunity for the best innovations in cryptocurrencies and digital assets to distinguish themselves. Read the full commentary here.

MEETINGS  Most popular 2022: Team Europe borrowers seminar Thursday 25 October, SeminarOMFIF brought together the three leading issuers of the European Union to discuss how they are managing their borrowing programmes. View the recap here.

ON DEMAND  Most viewed 2022: November’s FOMC meeting Steve Cecchetti, professor of international finance at Brandeis University, and Christopher Smart, chief global strategist and head of the Barings Investment Institute, join OMFIF to discuss the outcome of November’s FOMC meeting. Watch the video here.

MOST DOWNLOADED 2022 Future of capital markets 2022 Bankers, issuers and technology companies are scrambling to develop technology to overhaul how capital markets operate, a new report from OMFIF finds. Read the report here.