| Scholz avoids being shunted aside – for time being |
| By David Marsh and Andreas Meyer-Schwickerath |
| Olaf Scholz, Germany’s ninth and arguably most trouble-torn post-second world war chancellor, has resisted being shunted aside in favour of Boris Pistorius, his popular defence minister. But he still looks likely to become the first European political victim of Donald Trump, due to be inaugurated in January as America’s 47th president. Read the full commentary → |
UK fiscal policy: permanently living on the edge?
By Peter Sedgwick
Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ first budget in October 2024, with its increases in public expenditure, borrowing and taxation, was presented as a one-off ‘reset’ of fiscal policy, not to be repeated in the current parliament. This is too optimistic.
Bridging the funding gap with blended finance
By Barbara Rambousek
Public funds can play an important role in facilitating the scaling up of investments into climate solutions, especially in emerging markets.
MEETINGS
Future of payments: a new generation of payments takes shape
Tuesday 26 November, Report launch
OMFIF’s Future of payments 2024 delves into these issues, featuring an extensive survey of central banks on their concerns and priorities for the near and long term. A panel of experts will share their views about cross-border payments and the various solutions being proposed.
ON DEMAND
Why governments should embrace technology
Mark MacDonald, global public finance management leader at EY, and Joachim Schwerin, principal economist, DG GROW at the European Commission, joins OMFIF to discuss why governments should embrace new technology as well as how blockchain and AI can improve public finance outcomes.
LATEST REPORT
Global public funds and transition finance
This report explores pension and sovereign funds’ approaches to transition finance so that they can learn from each other and identify areas of common concern, including internal challenges, regulation and policy and the broader financial markets.
