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Samson Enzer

BWC welcomes our newest member, Samson Enzer, partner at Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP.

A distinguished former federal prosecutor, Samson “Sam” Enzer is the chair of Cahill’s nationally recognized cryptocurrency and blockchain group, and a member of the firm’s renowned white collar, government investigations, and litigation practices. Since launching Cahill’s cryptocurrency team, Sam has been named a national Law360 MVP in fintech and a National Law Journal Trailblazer in cryptocurrency, blockchain, and fintech based on the team’s accomplishments in these fields.

Rotating Refugee Crises Demand Development Daring

Another tragedy often overlooked during this year’s global Covid rampage, with their own physical mobility and financial remittance restrictions, is the 80 million displaced population in the UN’s latest tally, approximately one-third official refugees with 80% fleeing one developing country for another.

Revised Global Principles for Sustainable Securities Lending Issued Alongside Opening Signatories

Global Principles for Sustainable Securities Lending (Global PSSL) today published fully revised and updated principles for sustainable securities lending alongside invited opening signatories, available here.

Regional Financial Arrangements and the International Monetary Fund: Sustaining Coherence in Global Financial Governance

Cooperation and competition among regional financial arrangements (RFAs) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) increasingly determine the effectiveness of the global financial safety net (GFSN), which many observers fear is becoming fragmented.

Refugee bonds could help in Venezuela’s humanitarian catastrophe

Gary Kleiman is co-founder and senior partner at Kleiman International.

Regional markets offer possibility for private sector initiatives

Emerging market fund managers still invested in Venezuela are no longer just focused on debt restructuring.

Recovery Requires Greater Cooperation: Come Together

The coronavirus threatens thousands, possibly millions of lives across the globe. It is first and foremost a health crisis and the disease must be beaten, and the curve of Covid-19’s spread must be flattened for our lives to return to something approaching normalcy.

Putin Clipped The G7's Summit Commitments

Vladimir Putin might as well have been present at the G7 Leaders’ Summit in Bavaria’s Schloss Elmau in June. While the communiques issued at these annual events rarely make for exciting reading, the one choreographed by the Germans this year declares commitments marked by mild ambition, a dearth of concreteness, and few goals whose attainment can be easily measured.

Protecting Bank Deposits

BWC member Warren Coats: "The cost of the Chicago Plan... is the need for banks to fund their credit operations with equity or long-term debt, rather than with potentially volatile deposits. We should move to the Chicago Plan and fully separate money from credit."

Proposal for an IMF Staff Executive Board Paper on Promoting Market SDRs

Few initiatives would be more in keeping with the spirit and goals of the Bretton Woods Committee than the development of wide spread use of a truly international currency—the IMF’s SDR.

Prestige Economics' Schenker on US Jobs

Jason Schenker, president and chief economist at Prestige Economics, discusses the latest jobs data out of the US and outlook for emerging market bonds. He speaks with Bloomberg's Kathleen Hays and Haidi Stroud-Watts on "Bloomberg Daybreak: Australia." (Source: Bloomberg)