Future of payments 2024 Report launch | Tuesday 26 November 14:00 – 15:30 London ​​​Advancements in technology have instigated a period of remarkably rapid change in the payments industry. The official sector…
Keir Starmer: Put country first, then reform electoral system By Clive Horwood While Labour basks in the glow of a thumping 170-seat majority, smarter heads in the party – and…
DMI Journal – Tokenisation is gaining pull and plausibility Week after week, someone releases a new estimate of how many trillions of dollars of assets will be tokenised in the next…
Oscar Lewisohn: in best traditions of Anglo-Continental finance By David Marsh and Niels Thygesen Oscar Lewisohn, who died on 18 March aged 85, was an old-school banker who kept up the best…
AI in finance 2024 Tuesday 19 March, Seminar This event is OMFIF’s inaugural seminar on artificial intelligence policy and governance in finance. Taking place in partnership with the University of…
Addressing barriers to climate investments in EMDEs By Ekaterina Gratcheva To mitigate and adapt to the severe and systemic consequences of climate change, emerging market and developing economies require substantial investments.…
It’s time for Europe to toughen up and support seizing Russian assets By Mark Sobel The US and Europe disagree over whether $300bn of blocked Russian central bank assets should…
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…
Unlocking opportunities through better public finance management Public spending has ballooned to almost one third of global gross domestic product, underscoring the critical importance of efficient and impact-based allocation of…
International economic leadership is vital for US national security By Mark Sobel The US thinks of itself as the defender of the rules-based international order. On the security front, President…
How to ensure efficient and effective public spending By OMFIF editors Public spending makes up almost a third of global gross domestic product, having jumped seven percentage points in 2020…
German budget disarray sends out powerful ripples beyond Berlin By David Marsh Widening discord in Germany’s three-party governing coalition over the country’s constitutional court challenge to budgetary policy will spread…
India’s digital leap in financial inclusion By Arunima Sharan India’s financial landscape has had a monumental transformation in recent years. The implementation of the country’s digital public infrastructure, which includes…
David Cameron set to ‘slip effortlessly’ into foreign secretary role By Norman Lamont Since assuming his position as UK prime minister, Rishi Sunak has been accused of being indecisive, overly…
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…
Marrakech meetings will be a sombre affair By Mark Sobel The world’s finance ministers, central bank governors and many private financial leaders will descend on Marrakech, Morocco on 9 October…
AI and central banks workstream: October update ​​​​OMFIF’s artificial intelligence workstream investigates how central banks are adopting AI and machine learning technologies and using them with traditional finance systems. It…
Inside the Banque de France’s digital payments experiments By OMFIF editors The Banque de France has been exploring the feasibility of incorporating distributed ledger technology into payments systems for financial…
ECB rate rise intensifies dilemmas over Europe’s direction By David Marsh and Taylor Pearce The European Central Bank’s controversial 14 September decision to go ahead with further interest rate tightening…
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…
Xi Jinping’s historical view of economics hampering China’s growth By Meghnad Desai While the rest of the world experiences the sting of stagflation, the Chinese economy seems to witness 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…