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Bianca Taylor: Send Bond Covenants into Battle Against Climate Change Four powerful men leading the largest technology companies in the world sat before Congress last month for a six-hour grilling on how they chased and protected their dominance.	Mon, Aug 17, 2020	Financial Times
Rachel Wolfson: Sheila Warren: Blockchain Awareness Growing - but Still Needs 3 Things Speaking at the Hyperledger Global Forum 2020 in Phoenix, Arizona, the World Economic Forum’s head of blockchain and data policy, Sheila Warren, discussed blockchain’s potential to solve real-world problems.	Thu, Mar 5, 2020	Cointelegraph
Hung Tran: Silicon Valley Bank Failed: What Happens Next? BWC member Hung Tran says, "the regulatory community should work with Congress to reform and strengthen the financial regulatory framework given the obvious weaknesses revealed over the past week."	Tue, Mar 14, 2023	Atlantic Council
John B. Taylor: Simple Monetary Rules: Many Strengths and Few Weaknesses This paper endeavors to examine the basic idea in Richard Epstein’s book Simple Rules for a Complex World.	Tue, Jan 12, 2021	European Journal of Law and Economics
Creon Butler: Simplicity is the key to closing the climate finance gap The Bretton Woods Committee is pleased to spotlight a recent piece from Creon Butler, BWC Climate and Energy Transition Finance co-chair. The piece highlights the size of the current climate finance gap and finds an answer in a more streamlined and "simplified" model.	Fri, Apr 26, 2024	Chatham House
Dambisa Moyo: Six barriers to global growth – and how leaders can shatter them From trade wars and resource depletion to the rise of AI and spiralling debt, the world is full of risks for business leaders to worry about.	Tue, Jul 23, 2019	Director Magazine
Bianca Taylor and Jennifer R. Marlon: Sooner or Later, Climate Change Is Coming for Your Wallet Last week Gary Gensler, the chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission, made what seemed like an uncontroversial statement: “I think we can bring greater clarity to climate risk disclosures.”	Fri, Aug 6, 2021	Barron’s
Frank Vogl: Sovereign Debt and Kleptocracy - This Time It's Really Different The COVID crisis has injected a legitimate humanitarian imperative into bailing countries out of a sovereign debt crisis of historic proportions. The hastiness of the bailouts, however, is setting up all sorts of dire unintended consequences.	Wed, Jul 1, 2020	The American Interest
Mark Sobel: Sovereign debt architecture is messy and here to stay. Deal with it. With severe sovereign debt distress now entrenched and more to come, many analysts and practitioners want to revamp the architecture for sovereign-debt restructurings. To do this they are offering reform proposals that are often incompatible with the facts on the ground.	Tue, Aug 16, 2022	Financial Times
Member Spotlight: Sovereign debt workouts need knocking into shape The BWC is pleased to Member Spotlight a recent article by Reuters featuring a proposal regarding sovereign debt workouts from BWC Member Hung Tran.	Tue, Feb 6, 2024	Reuters