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Andy Haldane:All Crises Open Up Opportunities to Think AfreshThe Bank of England’s chief economist calls on policymakers to jolt companies towards fairer, more productive ways of working. |
Sun, Dec 13, 2020 | Financial Times |
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Miguel Schloss:Aligning Interests or Precipitating Energy TransitionBWC member Miguel Schloss wrote in the Global Journal of Science Frontier Research a new paper titled Aligning Interests or Precipitating Energy Transition. "The time has come to reset the role" of multilaterals, particularly the IMF and the World Bank. |
Thu, May 4, 2023 | Global Journal of Science Frontier Research | |
Member Monday:Ali WyneThis Member Monday we welcome new member Ali Wyne, Senior Research and Advocacy Advisor, U.S.-China for the International Crisis Group. Alejo leads a team for developing investment strategies for emerging markets and influencing the strategic direction of the firm's substantial assets. In addition to his role at UBS, Alejo is an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University, contributes to policy debates through involvement with global think tanks, and is recognized as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum, demonstrating his influence in both academia and global finance. |
Mon, Apr 22, 2024 | LinkedIn |
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Member Monday:Alen AminiThe Bretton Woods Committee is pleased to welcome new member, Alen Amini. Alen is a project leader for BCG with previous experience in education, government, small business, and nonprofit leadership. He has a passion for geopolitics and is the executive director of WiderNet, a nonprofit that provides information access to people lacking reliable internet |
Mon, Mar 11, 2024 | LinkedIn |
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Member Monday:Alejo CzerwonkoThis Member Monday we welcome new member Alejo Czerwonko, Chief Investment Officer (CIO) Emerging Markets Americas at UBS Global Wealth Management. |
Mon, Apr 22, 2024 | LinkedIn |
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Antonio De Lorenzo:AI Could Breathe New Life Into Core SystemsThe new kid on the block, AI, meets the original gangster, COBOL. Is it magic or is it a miss? COBOL, the Common Business-Oriented Language, is still very much an integral part of how data is stored and used by some of the institutions we trust deeply such as banks, insurers, healthcare providers, and governments. One would think that moving away from COBOL in our hyper connected and technologically advanced world would be easy. |
Fri, Dec 15, 2023 | Bretton Woods Committee | |
Paul Sheard:AI bots could be coming for the central bank's reaction functionBWC member Paul Sheard interviewed by Vasant Dhar argues that "monetary policy-making seems tailor-made" for eventual AI automation: clear policy goals, tools to achieve them, models of the economy and how decisions help achieve the goal, and past data. |
Thu, May 2, 2024 | Brave New World | |
Gary Kleiman:Africa Stock Markets Test Run Revival FormulaMost frontier African stock markets lagged in 2022, but a revival is likely on renewed privatization policies, cross-border integration, currency rationalization, and bank rotation from forced bond allocation into equities, writes BWC member Gary Kleiman. |
Thu, Feb 23, 2023 | IntelliNews Pro | |
Gary Kleiman:Africa stock markets plot depreciation/inflation escapeThe BWC is pleased to Member Spotlight Gary Kleiman's recent article with bne IntelliNews discussing the performance of various African frontier stock markets in the past year. According to Kleiman's article, "Last year African frontier stock markets on the dollar-denominated MSCI benchmark index, where the majority reside, were an overall losing proposition – with the region sub-index the only decliner at 7% versus the composite up by the same percentage." |
Tue, Jan 16, 2024 | bne IntelliNews |
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Gary Kleiman:Africa Sovereign Debt Spiral Foments FrustrationThis past year, a decade-long Africa commercial borrowing binge with $30bn worth of bonds outstanding came to a screeching halt amid outright or near defaults, with distressed spreads as a measure of risk of over 1,000 basis points to US Treasuries for the sovereign benchmark index cross-section. Debt topped the agenda at the US-Africa Leaders Summit in Washington, DC in December. |
Sat, Jan 14, 2023 | Bretton Woods Committee |