Vera Songwe, a non-resident senior fellow in the Africa Growth Initiative at the Brookings Institution and co-chair of the Independent High-Level Expert Group on Climate Finance, joins Katerina Atkins, programme coordinator at OMFIF’s Sustainable Policy Institute, to explore the key outcomes and challenges from the COP28 climate summit. They discuss the agreement to transition away from fossil fuels, the conclusion of the first global stocktake, the loss and damage fund, as well as the financial needs and innovative financing mechanisms to address climate change.
Libra and its potential role in the global monetary system
Synopsis: IMF in peril, Europe's ever-closer union, and unconventional policy tools
Examining prospects for monetary and fiscal policy coordination
Synopsis: Carney's futuristic ideas, living with deflation, and the rise of 'reverse Yankees'
Global gold demand: Prospects for central bank reserve portfolios
Synopsis: Draghi helps Lagarde, trouble in US repo markets, and bugs in the system
Fed Talk: a divided committee and mixed economic outlook
Synopsis: Christine Lagarde, RBI independence, and Cummings' clout
Public pensions: The shift into private markets
Synopsis: UK-EU co-operation after Brexit, conflicting opinions at the Federal Reserve, and the governorship of the Bank of England
In conversation with Willem Buiter
Synopsis: The Fed v. President Trump, DeLisle Worrell on the IMF, and the dollar's reserve currency role
Ahead of the ECB: Is quantitative easing back?
Synopsis: AfD on the rise, the weird world of Westminster, and big tech's encroachment on finance
Italy's political crisis
Synopsis: Marsh on Germany, Moeller on trade, and Kleiman on 2019's investment shakeup
S&P Global: The role of ratings agencies in environmental, social and governance investing
Synopsis: Italy's latest crisis, Macri's election calamity, and the G7 in Biarritz
Private Debt: Too big to ignore (part 2)
Synopsis: Boris and Brexit, sterling's freefall, and future Chinese growth
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