Member Views

Opinion: How Can DFIs Do More to Help MSMEs Survive Covid-19?

The global scale of the COVID-19 crisis threatens micro-, small-, and medium-sized enterprises, which dominate employment around the world — especially in lowest-income countries.

Outlook 2021: Biden Must Adopt Multilateral Tactics for China Policy

Relations between the US and China will remain fraught, albeit more diplomatic

Outlook 2024: More commotion than motion in foreign exchange markets

The BWC is pleased to Member Spotlight a recent OMFIF article by Mark Sobel suggesting to 'prepare for anaemic global growth and geopolitical turbulence' in 2024.

According to Sobel, "The 2024 global economic outlook is less than stellar. Enormous growth, macroeconomic policy and geopolitical uncertainties pervade the outlook and foreign exchange markets. How this plays out is anybody’s guess."

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.

Pandemic Requires Comprehensive Debt Standstills

Emerging-market economies must be allowed to defer all payments to international creditors — official and private — for at least one year.

The Covid-19 pandemic is a one-two financial punch for developing economies.

Perceived Versus Real Risk In African Credit Ratings

The ratings of African governments have allowed a robust Eurobond market for African sovereign bonds with over $300 billion issued in the last couple of decades. Maintaining access to this market has persuaded many African countries not to seek debt relief under the misconceived G-20 Common Framework (CF) which only three countries have filed to use – Zambia, Ethiopia and Chad -- and none of them has an agreement yet two years after the CF was announced.

Planning for Ukrainian Reconstruction After the War

BWC vice-chair William Rhodes recently spoke with the European American Chamber of Commerce about the need to start planning now for the future, massive reconstruction of Ukraine after the war, drawing on the lessons learned from the Marshall Plan and the reconstruction of Japan.

President Biden Announces Nominee for Deputy Administrator for Resilience at the Federal Emergency Management Agency

WASHINGTON – Today, President Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate Alice Hill to serve as the Deputy Administrator for Resilience at the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Department of Homeland Security.

Prestige Economics President on SVB Fallout

Jason Schenker, president at Prestige Economics, discussed the latest developments with SVB. He spoke with the hosts of Daybreak Asia.

Prestige Economics President on US Earnings, Economy

"We are moving in the right direction, but it's gonna still be a little bit longer" for inflation to come fully down.

BWC member Jason Schenker was interviewed by Bloomberg Daybreak: Australia on inflation, interest rates, and artificial intelligence.