Member Views

Key Takeaways from 2022 and Bold Predictions for 2023

BWC member and former CFIUS member Harry Broadman commented in Foreign Investment Watch on what the key developments in CFIUS policy during 2022 were and what might be a significant CFIUS policy action in 2023.

Linda Goldberg

BWC’s newest member is Linda Goldberg, Senior Vice President in Financial Intermediation at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Linda brings her great expertise in the areas of global banking, international capital flows, and the international roles of the dollar and other currencies to our network.

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."

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.”

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.