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The DMI Journal on 'Tokenisation: The new rails of finance’ is out now, featuring expert opinions on tokenisation's future and approaches to outstanding issues, based on discussions from the 2024 Digital Money Summit. Click to read: https://lnkd.in/eYnzkhKN Articles from: - Lewis McLellan, editor of the Digital Monetary Institute, OMFIF - Tokenisation: The new rails of finance David Anderson, strategic positioning & global thought leadership, Circle - The tokenisation wave is well underway - Nick Kerigan, managing director and head of innovation, Swift - Collaboration is key - Dom Ghazan, managing director, Global Trade Finance - Financial services can find innovation in tokenisation - Dr. Lars Hupel, chief evangelist of CBDC, Giesecke Devrient - The logical next step for securities? - Basak Toprak, EMEA head of Coin Systems, and Wee Kee Toh, head of business architecture, Coin Systems, Onyx J.P. Morgan - Cash-on-chain in action - Catherine Gu, head of CBDC and tokenised assets, and Mustafa Bedawala, product manager for crypto products, Visa - Nearing a payments evolution - Rajeev B., senior vice president and head of digital economy strategy Moody's Ratings - Risks on the rise as digital finance advances - Hugues MARIE, product manager, CBDC and digital currencies, and Jerome Ajdenbaum, vice president, fintech IDEMIA - Shaping the future of payments - Oliver Carew, fintech consulting, and Fran Clausen, global regulatory network strategy lead, EY - Embracing markets 3.0 paradigm - Christoph Hock, head of tokenisation and digital assets, Union Investment, and Frank Scheidig, global head of senior executive banking, DZ BANK AG - Configuring on-chain assets in a tokenised economy -Thibault Pelé, product lead of CBDC, Worldline - The future will rely on ambition and adoption - Lewis McLellan, editor of the Digital Monetary Institute, OMFIF - New engines, new rules - Jon Cunliffe, former deputy governor for financial stability, Bank of England, and former chair of the Bank for International Settlements – BIS committee on payments and market infrastructures - The future of payments: a new engine? - Julian Jacobs, senior economist, Digital Monetary Institute, OMFIF - Will growth in regional payment systems spur de-dollarisation? - Katerina Liu, research analyst, Digital Monetary Institute, OMFIF - The next generation of capital markets Katie-Ann Wilson Folusho Olutosin

OMFIF's Global Public Investor 2024 surveyed 73 central banks and uncovered regional trends: 25% of Latin American central banks plan to increase their dollar allocation over the next decade. Click to read the full report and to discuss the opportunity to unlock our unique 6,000 anonymised datapoints: https://lnkd.in/eEF_krrx

The global South – particularly developing countries – may miss out on many economic benefits of artificial intelligence due to significant capital costs, while simultaneously enduring the hazards of AI growth in the form of possible environmental degradation and labour disruption, writes OMFIF's Julian Jacobs and Francesco Tasin, University of Oxford Future Impact Group: https://lnkd.in/eamGy4-B

Today, the Capital Market Authority Rwanda hosted a virtual session with the OMFIF Economic and Monetary Policy Institute to present the #Absa Africa Financial Markets Index, with a particular focus on #Rwanda. We extend our heartfelt gratitude to our great speakers for their invaluable insights: Hon. Soraya M. Hakuziyaremye, Deputy Governor of the National Bank of Rwanda (NBR); Mr. Thapelo Tsheole - MComm, MBA, CEO of the Capital Market Authority Rwanda; Mr. Nikhil Sanghani, Managing Director at OMFIF Economic and Monetary Policy Institute; and Mr. Jeff Gable, Chief Economist at Absa Group. The Absa Africa Financial Markets Index assesses the financial development of countries based on criteria such as market accessibility, openness, and transparency. This index serves as a vital benchmark for investors evaluating the market infrastructure of African nations and provides policymakers with insights into regional economic trends. The discussion highlighted Rwanda's standing in this year's index. The recorded session can be found here: https://lnkd.in/dVcqYcXz #RwandaCapitalMarket #CMARwandaWebinars

The UK must reset and reimagine its relationship with data to unlock sustainable economic growth and open up digital markets 💰 📈 🚀 https://lnkd.in/eamS9HGQ UK should transform its approach to data, treating it as critical public infrastructure to drive sustainable economic growth. Current data monopolies hinder competition, market innovation and fairness. Learning from EU’s Digital Services Act, UK should act to increase and improve data access and use, spur competition and show world leadership in the digital economy, fostering a more equitable and innovative society. enjoyed working with Elena Simperl to frame this opinion piece for OMFIF OMFIF Sustainable Policy Institute

#Technology is playing a critical role in scaling up climate action and transforming capital markets. It is helping to overcome challenges in data gaps and risk modelling and ensure market and investor confidence in sustainable products and projects. Nevertheless, more investment is needed to support technological advancement, and with new technologies comes uncertainty, writes OMFIF's Emma McGarthy: https://lnkd.in/edP5Csfv

🎉Just released: OMFIF's SPI journal, Q3 2024!🌱 #Technology is playing a critical role in scaling up #climate action and transforming capital markets. It is helping to overcome challenges in data gaps and risk modelling and ensure market and investor confidence in #sustainable products and projects. Nevertheless, more investment is needed to support technological advancement, and with new technologies comes uncertainty. 💻 📖This edition of the Sustainable Policy Institute Journal examines the key role data and technology will play in driving green finance and the economy-wide transition. It explores the latest policies for innovation and technological advancement, and the increasingly prevalent role of artificial intelligence and machine learning for investors and asset managers. 🤖 📈To better understand, and thereby mitigate, potential financial risk, more disclosure and reporting of financial activities is integral. This importance has been reflected in the proliferation of regulation and taxonomy frameworks introduced in recent years. Contributors from the Bank for International Settlements – BIS and MSCI Sustainability Institute discuss the need to manage and mitigate the financial risks associated with sustainable finance and look at how to make transition projects investable. 💰 👨💻Collecting reliable and actionable data remains a big challenge. Contributions from Citi, BNP Paribas, the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) and the Open Data Institute delve into the hurdles currently faced by investors and asset managers. Some of the solutions they call for include collecting data on a much timelier basis, treating data like a public infrastructure and combining both thematic screening and quantitative analysis tools. 🌱New technology, and in particular artificial intelligence and machine learning, hold great promise for making data collection and risk identification easier and more efficient. Contributors from Banco de España, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA), IFC - International Finance Corporation and University of Oxford’s Future Impact Group examine the areas of green finance where technology might spur on developments. However, the environmental impact and safety risks of such technology need to be considered, especially in developing countries. While advancements in AI and other innovative technologies can cause uncertainty, the financial sector must capitalise on and integrate these tools to support better investment practices, data and information as well as risk management. Technology developments provide huge opportunities for scaling up a sustainable economy. 🖥️ 🔗Read for free here: https://lnkd.in/e4VYm9e4

By early 2022, the Bank of England had bought £875bn of UK government bonds and £20bn of commercial bonds. However, recent reductions in the balance sheet have now trimmed the government bond portfolio down to £693bn. It is now time to consider how these losses and the drain on the exchequer can be mitigated, writes John Redwood, Chief Global Strategist at Charles Stanley :https://lnkd.in/eYH2C4gf

Leveraging data, technology and innovation for sustainable finance Technology is projected to play a critical role in scaling climate action. Its role in helping to overcome challenges in data gaps and risk modelling is key to ensure market and investor confidence in sustainable products and projects. This panel discussion, in accordance with the Summer 2024 edition of the Sustainable Policy Institute Journal, will discuss the latest trends in climate related-technology as well as how data and innovation can be a transformative force in catalysing green finance.

To mark The Labour Party’s first 100 days in power, OMFIF is convening an expert panel to assess the new government’s progress on bolstering economic growth, improving the public finances and fostering better UK-European Union relations. Find out more here: https://lnkd.in/ddPQCjbb