New age wealth: Building wealth in the digital age Wednesday 12 February, Partner events New Age Wealth is an exclusive series of private gatherings by the Sovereign Wealth Fund Institute.…
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…
Economic nationalism presents constant challenge for investors By Gary Smith Looking at what has changed for long-term investors during the last decade paints a sobering picture. In October 2014 macroeconomic…
Absa Africa Financial Markets Index 2024 Thursday 24 October, Report launch Now in its eighth year, the Absa Africa Financial Markets Index evaluates the financial development of African countries based…
CBDC success depends on public and private sector collaboration By Katerina Liu Almost 70% of central bank respondents to OMFIF’s 2023 Future of payments survey expect to issue a central…
SEC grudgingly approves bitcoin spot ETFs By Lewis McLellan The US Securities and Exchange Commission has – after more than five years of spirited resistance – approved applications for spot…
Delors, Schäuble and the melancholic road to European integration By David Marsh Wolfgang Schäuble and Jacques Delors, German and French finance ministers who became bywords for fiscal stringency, left enduring…
Greening portfolios is simple, real-world decarbonisation is not By Nikhil Sanghani If public investors want to decarbonise their portfolios, the solution is simple. They should simply divest from positions in…
Scotland must be serious about ‘kilts’ for it to make sense By Burhan Khadbai Scotland’s intention to issue its own government bonds has left more questions than answers. The crucial…
Italy’s central bank faces a turning point By Ignazio Angeloni Italy has a new governor at the helm of its central bank. The Banca d’Italia has lost most of its…
Enhancing domestic payments with wholesale CBDC On 12 September, OMFIF’s Digital Monetary Institute, in partnership with Visa, hosted a live broadcast that explored where central bank priorities, opportunities and challenges…
European DMOs step up retail issuance but not all are convinced By Burhan Khadbai While a number of European sovereign debt management offices are ramping up sales of retail debt,…
Crypto ecosystem must apply anti-corruption rules By OMFIF editors Ahead of the publication of OMFIF’s Digital assets report, Tom Neylan, senior policy analyst at the Financial Action Task Force, a…
Fostering financial inclusion through payments in the Middle East and Africa Thursday 31 August, Roundtable OMFIF’s Digital Monetary Institute in partnership with Mastercard Policy Center for the Digital Economy, continues…
Fitch downgrade on US is odd but not pointless By Mark Sobel The financial media has understandably and predictably been abuzz over Fitch Ratings downgrading the US from its triple-A…
Borrowers urged to issue more sustainability-linked bonds By Burhan Khadbai Public sector borrowers from Asia, Latin America and Europe should intensify efforts to issue sustainability-linked bonds – and not worry…
Should SSA and sovereign markets be grouped together? By Burhan Khadbai There is an argument that grouping all European sovereign, supranational and agency debt as one would boost the availability…
The future of money: CBDC cyber resilience and the payments revolution Wednesday 29 March, Roundtable OMFIF’s Digital Monetary Institute and Amazon Web Services are convening a private roundtable for central…
Borrowers grapple with a challenging market environment By Clive Horwood Public sector borrowers face a raft of challenges in funding their programmes through difficult and volatile markets, OMFIF’s Public Sector…
How do attitudes to digital payments differ around the world? Friday 5 November 2021 – Vol.12 Ed.44.5 Meeting: Consumer attitudes to CBDC Tuesday 9 November, all day OMFIF’s Digital Monetary…
Raskin says US ready to lead in climate battle, 10 questions for ECB strategy review, and more THE WEEKEND REVIEW – OMFIF Latest opinion and analysis from OMFIF around the world 1-5 March…
Sunak should hold fire on tax increases, Legal troubles may delay CBDCs Thursday 25 February 2021 – Vol.12 Ed.8.4 Commentary: Sunak should hold fire on tax increases By Meghnad Desai…
Don’t overthink election’s impact on financial markets, CBDC and monetary policy implications for the euro area Tuesday 3 November 2020 – Vol.11 Ed.45.2 Commentary: Don’t overthink election’s impact By Pierre…
CBDC with Chinese characteristics, Sustainability and stewardship in asset management Monday 21 September 2020 – Vol.11 Ed.39.1 Commentary: CBDC with Chinese characteristics By Herbert Poenisch in Penang China takes pride…
Exaggerated worries over dollar demise, DLT and its potential use for CBDC Friday 14 August 2020 Vol.11 Ed.33.6 Commentary: Dollar’s well-entrenched reserve status By Mark Sobel in Washington August has…