| Emerging sustainable repo market shows maturity of sovereign labelled bonds |
| By Burhan Khadbai |
| Repurchase agreements are an obscure but important part of the bond market and wider financial system, with trillions of dollars’ worth of securities traded every day. The rapid growth of the green and sustainable bond market issued by sovereigns in recent years has led to the slow emergence of a repo market for these transactions. Read the full commentary → |
Britain and China: strong reserves of common ground
By David Marsh
At a turning point in both countries’ development, Britain and China share strong reserves of common ground. It is worth examining how the two countries can combine forces in some key areas.
Distressed LICs need debt relief, not more new debt
By Kevin Gallagher and Mark Sobel
The International Monetary Fund and World Bank have established a new approach to what they view as a pervasive liquidity crisis in many low-income countries and some emerging markets. However, injecting more liquidity into these countries may pile on debt.
MEETINGS
2025 US monetary policy outlook and global ramifications
Tuesday 10 December, Roundtable
Ahead of the December Federal Open Market Committee meeting, Ellen Meade of Duke University, Elliot Hentov of State Street Global Advisors, and Robin Brooks of Brookings Institution, discuss the US monetary policy outlook next year and implications for the global economy.
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, join OMFIF to discuss why governments should embrace new technology as well as how blockchain and AI can improve public finance outcomes.
LATEST REPORT
Future of payments 2024
This year, advancements in technology have instigated remarkably rapid change in the payments industry. OMFIF’s Future of payments 2024 report features an extensive survey of central banks on their concerns and priorities for payments in the near and long term.
