Member Views

Crypto Regulation: From Crisis to Opportunity

In 2022 the global financial markets were rattled by a series of adverse developments in the crypto segment, which culminated in the FTX meltdown and the multiple ripple effects the markets are likely to continue to grapple with in the course of this year. The implications of the crypto debacle, while clearly negative in the near term, also concern the longer-term trajectories of market development and regulation.

Dan Alpert on Current Trends and Tensions in the US Economy

Dan Alpert is an investment banker and a founding Managing Partner of Westwood Capital. He also regularly writes and speaks on big macro-structural issues. Dan joins David Beckworth on Macro Musings to discuss recent macroeconomic events.

DeAnne Julius

Another new member at BWC: DeAnne Julius, Chatham House. DeAnne is a senior adviser to Chatham House and a distinguished fellow in its Global Economy and Finance programme.

She is a former member of the Temasek International Panel (Singapore) and the International Advisory Council of the China Investment Corporation (Beijing).

Debt Crisis will Delay Global Recovery

The Covid-19 pandemic will spark hugely damaging debt defaults in developing countries, hampering rebuilding and recovery.

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.”

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.

Decline of globalisation will make our planet less prosperous and more unliveable

o The unfolding trade, tech and cold wars between the US, China and their allies risk eroding the international rules-based architecture
o Without a system for connection and exchange, economies will shrink, cooperation will wither and global crises will mount

Democracies Have Proven They Have the Edge in Coping with this Crisis

Throughout the centuries, competitors of the prevailing system have known that disaster presents them with an opportunity.

Designing Institutional Collaboration into Global Governance

Global governance is largely, albeit not exclusively, a matter of collaboration among international institutions.

Developing a Capacity for Candid Reflection

Dr. Abdulhamid Alkhalifa, a Saudi Arabian national, is the Director-General and Chief Executive Officer of OFID - the OPEC Fund for International Development.