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Tuesday Jun 04, 2024
Indicators and policies to drive gender balance in financial institutions
Tuesday Jun 04, 2024
Tuesday Jun 04, 2024
Regina Curry, chief diversity officer at Franklin Templeton, joins Emma McGarthy, head of the Sustainable Policy Institute at OMFIF, to discuss the importance of gender balance in financial institutions. They examine the necessary benchmarks, key indicators and information required to retain and encourage women in leadership positions as well as how to foster inclusive cultures and overcome barriers.
Thursday May 30, 2024
Microsoft's vision for responsible AI in the public sector
Thursday May 30, 2024
Thursday May 30, 2024
Valentina Ion, public finance and public transportation lead at Microsoft, joins OMFIF to discuss the company's commitment to ethical and responsible artificial intelligence in the public sector. She explores the key risks posed by advanced AI systems, outlines Microsoft's core principles for ethical development and explains the importance of public-private partnerships in addressing AI safety and governance challenges. Ion also offers suggestions for how individuals can stay informed about AI's evolving landscape.
Tuesday May 28, 2024
Using better measures to inform public spending
Tuesday May 28, 2024
Tuesday May 28, 2024
In the first of three podcasts as part of OMFIF’s project with EY on the future of public money, OMFIF’s Nikhil Sanghani is joined by Dr Carolyn Bordeaux, senior visiting scholar at the University of Georgia and former member of the US House of Representatives, and Mark Macdonald, global public finance management leader at EY.
They discuss the growing fiscal constraints facing governments, the need for effective institutional structures and the importance of having better metrics to inform public spending decisions.
Tuesday May 07, 2024
Financial stability outlook: risks and resilience
Tuesday May 07, 2024
Tuesday May 07, 2024
Pedro Duerte Neves, Adviser for the Board of Directors and former Vice-Governor of Banco de Portugal, joins Taylor Pearce, senior economist, Economic and Monetary Policy Institute, OMFIF, to discuss the global financial stability outlook. Their discussion references the IMF’s 2024 Global Financial Stability Report, and examines vulnerabilities and risks to the global financial system, including stretched asset valuations, burgeoning public and private debt and the growing probability of cyberattacks.
The views and opinions expressed are those of the interviewee and do not necessarily reflect those of Banco de Portugal or the Eurosystem.
Friday May 03, 2024
Taking stock: financial market integration in Europe
Friday May 03, 2024
Friday May 03, 2024
Björn Storim, chief executive officer, and Ben Pott, managing director and international head of public policy and government affairs at BNY Mellon, join Clive Horwood, managing editor and deputy chief executive officer at OMFIF. They assess the progress towards capital markets union in Europe and the need to accelerate financial market integration. They discuss the current challenges, approaches to harmonising market infrastructure and regulations and the importance of securitisation to European competitiveness.
Tuesday Apr 30, 2024
US dollar dominance: Is there no alternative?
Tuesday Apr 30, 2024
Tuesday Apr 30, 2024
Max Castelli, head of strategy, sovereign institutions at UBS Asset Management, joins Taylor Pearce, senior economist at OMFIF, to discuss the role of the dollar as a global reserve currency in a multipolar world. They discuss factors such as China’s rise in power, sanctions risk and the development of alternative payments systems and how these could challenge dollar dominance. They also discussed the recent surge in gold and Bitcoin prices in the context of currency diversification for institutional investors.
Whether or not the introduction of CBDCs will impact central banks’ reserve management strategies will be explored in OMFIF’s forthcoming Global Public Investor 2024 report, along with other asset and currency allocation trends.
Thursday Apr 25, 2024
Geopolitical risks: What’s at stake for investors?
Thursday Apr 25, 2024
Thursday Apr 25, 2024
Taylor Pearce, senior economist, Economic Monetary Institute at OMFIF, hosts Elliot Hentov, head of macro policy research at State Street Global Advisors, to discuss the interplay between geopolitics and financial markets. Hentov outlines several risk factors that could impact markets – including geopolitical shocks, risk premium repricing and the upcoming US election – and what investors are doing as a result.
Thursday Apr 18, 2024
Greece’s landmark debt restructuring – What happened and why it matters
Thursday Apr 18, 2024
Thursday Apr 18, 2024
Charles Dallara, ex-managing director of Institute of International Finance, talks about his book Euroshock, explaining how the 2012 Greek debt restructuring helped save European economic and monetary union from breakdown. A conversation with David Marsh and Burhan Khadbai.
Thursday Apr 18, 2024
The history of dollar dominance and weaponisation
Thursday Apr 18, 2024
Thursday Apr 18, 2024
Saleha Mohsin, senior Washington correspondent for Bloomberg News joined Mark Sobel, US chair at OMFIF, to discuss her recently published book, Paper Soldiers: How the Weaponization of the Dollar Changed the World Order. She discusses how secretaries of the Treasury of past decades managed communications about the dollar and how the department developed and deployed financial sanctions based on the dollar's globally dominant role.
Tuesday Mar 19, 2024
Pre-validation: combatting fraud and minimising errors in payments
Tuesday Mar 19, 2024
Tuesday Mar 19, 2024
Cian O’Murchu, head of strategic transformation, Mireia Guisado-Parra, pre-validation product owner at Swift and Julien Lasalle, head of cashless payment monitoring at Banque de France, join Lewis McLellan, editor of OMFIF’s Digital Monetary Institute. Together, they discuss the implementation of pre-validation – a new tool developed to reduce the number of errors in payments and restore people's trust in their ability to safely pay for goods and services online.