Sovereign index inclusion will be a ‘game-changer’ for EU bonds By Burhan Khadbai While the European Union was dealt a blow earlier this year when both Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) and…
Schlesinger, quintessential German central banker, turns 100 By David Marsh Helmut Schlesinger, the quintessential post-war German central banker, turns 100 on 4 September. Although he was president of the Bundesbank for…
Data will reveal gold medallists of the climate transition By Trevor Allen If renewable energy had been an Olympic contender, it would not have made the podium in Paris. Over…
Slovenia breaks ground with first European sovereign digital bond By OMFIF editors Amélie Frémy, innovation chief operating officer for global markets at BNP Paribas, spoke to Burhan Khadbai, head of…
Revolutionising and rebalancing China’s financial sector By Udaibir Das China’s economic system looms large in global finance, drawing both intrigue and apprehension. The discourse is dominated by criticism of its…
How to make climate adaptation and resilience investable By Umar Ashfaq Avoiding the worst impacts of a warming world will demand both a transition from the burning of fossil fuels…
No easy answers for the Bank of England By Norman Lamont A new generation in Britain has experienced the pain of high inflation. For a long time price stability has…
It’s time to get creative on Ukraine debt By Timothy Ash and Alex Garrard Government representatives from around the world came together to create the right conditions for Ukraine’s recovery…
Asia can withstand destabilisation of western tightening By Taimur Baig The US Federal Reserve may be reaching the end of its monetary policy cycle, but the impact of both the…
Are CBDCs a ticking timebomb for commercial banks? By David Creer and Alexander Feenie Most central banks have advanced plans to launch central bank digital currencies to run in parallel…
ESG investors must engage with emerging markets to deepen capital base By Burhan Khadbai The emerging markets present an attractive opportunity for sustainable investors, with a huge financing gap for…
Silicon Valley Bank and the double-edged sword of digital efficiency By Julian Jacobs Digital finance allows for rapid dissemination of information and the ability to move funds with significant speed.…
IMF spring meetings will be sanguine on the surface By Mark Sobel The world’s finance ministers and central bank governors are descending on Washington DC from 10-16 April for the…
Smaller SSA issuers must ensure secondary market liquidity By Burhan Khadbai One of the issues raised at OMFIF’s inaugural European agency and sub-sovereign forum was how smaller agency and sub-sovereign…
Efforts to meet Paris agreement targets risk being derailed By Arunima Sharan International co-operation and financing are cited as key factors in achieving the goals of the 2015 Paris agreement.…
EU Green Bond Standard a ‘wasted opportunity’ for issuers By Burhan Khadbai The creation in February of a European Green Bond Standard has been regarded as a positive step towards…
China makes sweeping reform to financial sector regulation By Udaibir Das While the world is preoccupied with the stability of the western banking system, China has been busy overhauling its…
Capital adequacy approach to bank soundness is fundamentally flawed By DeLisle Worrell There is a fatal flaw at the heart of approaches to bank soundness which seek to insure against…
China is putting its economy back on track By Herbert Poenisch Now that the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party and Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference have concluded…
Credit Suisse: a failure of regulatory culture By Simon Brady The failure of Credit Suisse is peculiar because it has not involved the revelation of hidden losses or a ‘black…
Punch-drunk Credit Suisse was fated to fall By Clive Horwood An extraordinary weekend in Switzerland culminated in the collapse of Credit Suisse into the wary embrace of its great rival,…
Central banks are far from achieving gender balance By Katerina Liu The appointment of Kazuo Ueda as the Bank of Japan’s new governor in February, alongside two male deputy governors,…
Connecting the dots between finance and gender equality By Anita Bhatia Developments over the last decade have demonstrated that the financial industry can be tapped to help solve some of…
Outlook 2023: What to expect for ESG By Eoin Murray The large-scale trends shaping the investment world are well-known at this juncture, namely climate change, biodiversity and ecosystem loss, social…
Outlook 2023: Euro will continue to beat expectations By Geoffrey Yu After all the uncertainty which Europe endured last year, it is quite a feat that the European Central Bank’s…