| Outlook 2025: Will central banks pick up the pace on CBDCs? |
| By Katerina Liu |
| Central banks are progressing in their research on retail central bank digital currencies, but some have yet to commit to launching one. As more research and experimentation is undertaken, 2025 could see some concrete decisions made on issuance. Read the full commentary → |
Outlook 2025: Global economy will underwhelm amid huge uncertainty
By Mark Sobel
The global economy will underwhelm in 2025. Policy-makers may be satisfied with global growth rates around 3%. But they are failing to address fundamental challenges and the global economy is muddling along, a far cry from the 4% and higher average rates in past decades.
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Time for the pivotal move on CBDCs
Tuesday 11 February, Launch
To explore the factors contributing to the limited launch of CBDCs, OMFIF’s Digital Monetary Institute has conducted a landmark survey of central banks, examining their opinions on CBDCs, what they hope to achieve with one and what elements they are struggling with.
ON DEMAND
Tokenisation: a new model for collaboration
Dominik Talebi, managing director of Global Trade Finance, joins Lewis McLellan, editor of OMFIF’s Digital Monetary Institute, to discuss the new economic paradigm that tokenisation is already beginning to offer.
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Gold and the new world disorder
Building on OMFIF’s long-run analysis on the ‘Seven Ages of Gold’, this report, in partnership with Commodity Discovery Fund and GoldRepublic, explores new developments in central bank gold policies.
