Is offline functionality worth the effort? By Katerina Liu As many central banks undertake initiatives to implement digital currencies and new payments systems, many are looking to include offline functionality…
Standardisation is crucial to improving efficiencies in bond issuance By Burhan Khadbai Increased standardisation would have the biggest impact on efficiency in both pre-trade and post-trade bond issuance processes, a…
Dollar will stay dominant but influence to wane according to the Global Public Investor 2023 OMFIF’s Global Public Investor 2023 report goes further than ever before to unpack reserve managers’…
EU should brace for further lawsuits over funding By Burhan Khadbai, David Marsh and Edoardo Reviglio The German constitutional court has opened the door to further ambitious European Union borrowing…
Renminbi movements: it’s more than the trade and current account By Mark Sobel The Chinese renminbi has fluctuated widely this year, both against the dollar and its trade-weighted basket, and…
Fed will maintain tightening – but soft landing still possible By OMFIF The US Federal Reserve is likely to carry on with active monetary tightening to break 8%-plus inflation even…
Tuesday 22 March 2022 – Vol.13 Ed.12.2 Commentary: Russia sanctions, the renminbi and the dollar’s future By Mark Sobel in Washington The dollar’s global dominance remains well entrenched. Yet every ripple…
UK heading for recession, renminbi strength will not last Tuesday 18 January 2022 – Vol.13 Ed.3.2 Commentary: Year of Hobson’s choice: UK recession is inevitable By Brian Reading in London For…
ECB should follow Fed’s transparency example, PBoC interventions in offshore renminbi necessary for now, and more THE WEEKEND REVIEW Latest opinion and analysis from OMFIF around the world 1-5 November 2021, Vol.12 Ed.44…
Renminbi must depreciate following Evergrande fallout, Policing the virtual frontier, and more THE WEEKEND REVIEW Latest opinion and analysis from OMFIF around the world 4-8 October 2021, Vol.12 Ed.40 Most-Read Commentary Renminbi must…
Evergrande saga raises questions over global stability Thursday 7 October 2021 – Vol.12 Ed.40.4 Commentary: Renminbi must depreciate following Evergrande fallout By Freya Beamish in London The collapse of Lehman Brothers…
Central banks will accelerate rise of the renminbi, OMFIF report reveals Download your complimentary copy of Global Public Investor 2021 OMFIF’s eighth annual Global Public Investor finds the renminbi is on course to become…
Renminbi attracting international attention as its rise resumes Monday 16 August 2021 – Vol.12 Ed.33.1 Commentary: Renminbi internationalisation getting back on track By Herbert Poenisch in Hangzhou The issue of…
Renminbi’s rise, 50 years after the dollar-gold shock, IMF shifts approach to low income countries and special drawing rights, and more THE WEEKEND REVIEW – OMFIF Latest opinion and analysis from OMFIF around…
How the Nixon shock set broad path for renminbi rise 50 years ago Thursday 12 August 2021 – Vol.12 Ed.32.4 Commentary: Renminbi’s rise, 50 years after the dollar-gold shock By…
Inflation concerns in Asia, CBDC programmable payments, and more THEÂ WEEKENDÂ REVIEWÂ – OMFIF Latest opinion and analysis from OMFIF around the world26-30 July 2021, Vol.12 Ed.30 Most-Read Commentary Inflation concerns take…
Big ideas to help hard-hit nations; Why China doesn’t need global renminbi role Tuesday 27 July 2021 – Vol.12 Ed.30.2 Commentary: How ‘financial adventurism’ can boost debt-hit nations By David Marsh…
Will digital renminbi undermine dollar dominance? Two answers to Sino-American currency question Friday 23 April 2021 – Vol.12 Ed.16.5 Commentary: China is undermining the dollar’s global role By Herbert Poenisch…
Outlook 2021: Sovereign debt can boost euro’s reserve currency status, Remote working and Covid-19
Outlook 2021: Sovereign debt can boost euro’s reserve currency status, Remote working and Covid-19 Wednesday 27 January 2021 – Vol.12 Ed.4.3 Outlook 2021: Sovereign debt can boost euro By Frank…
10 reasons why renminbi will keep rising, Views on the December FOMC meeting Monday 14 December 2020 – Vol.11 Ed.51.1 Commentary: 10 reasons why​​​​​renminbi will keep rising By David Marsh…
China seeks second wind for renminbi, In conversation with Robert Kaplan Friday 3 July 2020Â –Â Â Vol.11 ed.31.6Â Commentary: China seeks second wind for renminbi By Geoffrey Yu in London…
China eyes long game in Europe, Designing a sustainable recovery THEÂ WEEKENDÂ REVIEWÂ OMFIF Latest opinion and analysis from OMFIFÂ around the world 13-17 July 2020, Vol.11Â Ed.27Â Most-Read Commentary Vexed but unruffled,…
Mark Sobel on the renminbi, ‘Foolhardy’ to cry manipulation, and Time for radical EMU reform Latest opinion and analysis from OMFIF around the world 5-9 August 2019, Vol.10 Ed.32 Most-Read…
Renminbi slides past Rmb7 per dollar, Islamic finance special report Tuesday 6 August 2019Â Vol.10 Ed.32.1 Commentary: Renminbi slides past Rmb7 per dollar By Mark Sobel and David Marsh David Marsh,…
Mark Sobel on Christine Lagarde’s ECB appointment, Summer Bulletin, and more OMFIF update week 27Â – 1-5 July 2019 Vol.10Â Ed.27 COMMENTARYÂ Ignore Lagarde’s doubters Christine Lagarde’s nomination to the…