Austria is no stranger to innovating and creating new products in the government bond market. In 2012, it was the first sovereign to issue a dual-tranche syndication. In 2017, it brought Europe’s first syndicated century bond and a year later, in 2018, it was the first European sovereign to use blockchain technology in government bond auctions.
The core principles for the economy’s lender of last resort were passed down to us by Walter Bagehot after London’s 1866 banking crisis. Read the full commentary →
Max Castelli, head of strategy, sovereign institutions at UBS Asset Management, joins Taylor Pearce, senior economist at OMFIF, to discuss the role of the dollar as a global reserve currency in a multipolar world.
This year’s Gender Balance Index finds that there were missed opportunities to boost women’s representation in leadership positions across all institution types in the index. While there has been some progress, it remains slow.
