Member Views

International Sustainable Development Summit

BWC and IFF member Marsha Vande Berg opened the IFF summit on International Sustainable Development this week. She focused on the ways that markets and governments can better serve the mission of sustainable development. In doing so, she emphasized the need for leadership to mitigate climate risk and damage as well as the cost if such leadership does not fulfill its potential.  

Ways to Nudge Equitable Climate Finance Forward

Last month COP27 came to a close with a historic announcement to establish a loss and damage fund, where rich countries pledge financial support to countries most vulnerable to the climate crisis.  

December FOMC Meeting

BWC member Mark Sobel of OMFIF hosted Joe Gagnon, senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and former Federal Reserve official, to discuss the outcome of December’s Federal Open Market Committee meeting.

P.R.I.M.E. Finance Panel Appointment

BWC member William Jannace has been newly appointed to the P.R.I.M.E. Finance Panel, a panel of legal and financial experts in the documentation, law, and market practice for derivatives and other complex financial products.

CNBC's Power Lunch on Bankman-Fried Trial and Crypto

BWC member Caitlin Long joined CNBC’s Power Lunch to explain her take on the implications of Sam Bankman-Fried’s upcoming trial on cryptocurrencies.

Joining the NYU School of Professional Studies

BWC member Greg Johnson will be joining the NYU School of Professional Studies as an adjunct professor, where he'll lecture on the nexus of technology, innovation, and legacy business. Greg was on the drafting team for BWC's Digital Finance Project Team's most recent brief.

2023 Economic Financial Outlook

BWC member Jason Schenker of Prestige Economics and The Futurist Institute joined Bloomberg to share his expectations for the economy this year.

Fed Reverse Repos Hit a New Record: An Unhealthy Development

BWC member Hung Tran comments for the Atlantic Council that the daily volume of Fed reverse repos reaching a new record high is an unhealthy development with largely negative implications for the US financial system and economy going forward.

Debt Fixes Can Help Rebuild Ukraine

“Policy planners in Kyiv, Washington, Brussels and London must start the complex and essential process of planning for rebuilding before the conflict ends,” writes BWC Board of Directors Vice-Chair William Rhodes today for Reuters. “In doing so they should deploy the financial innovation which helped to halt the Latin American debt crisis of the 1980s: Brady bonds.”

A U.S. Call for Modest IMF Gold Sales to Help Africa

"Modest IMF gold sales to help Sub-Saharan African nations and low-income countries could strongly bolster the IMF’s global role and benefit not only these countries, but also U.S. national interests," writes BWC member Mark Sobel. 

"On the heels of the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit, the United States should lead an international effort to sell modest amounts of IMF gold for LICs."