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Digital Currencies: The Rise of Stablecoins

September 19, 2019--A battle is raging for your wallet. New entrants want to occupy the space once used by paper bills or your debit card.

The adoption of new, digital payment methods could bring significant benefits to customers and society: improved efficiency, greater competition, broader financial inclusion, and more innovation. But it could invite risks to financial stability and integrity, monetary policy effectiveness, and competition standards, as outlined in a recent IMF staff paper, the first of a new series of Fintech Notes.

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Source: IMF


Long Finance-Global Financial Centres Index 26

September 19, 2019--London hung onto its second place ranking in the Global Financial Centres Index 26, launched today by Z/Yen Group in partnership with the China Development Institute (CDI) in both London and Shenzhen.

New York extended its lead over London to 17 points. Strong performances from other centres, in particular Paris, put London's second place in the index at risk next time.

If London and Paris have similar falls and rises in the ratings for GFCI 27, London would be reduced to a two point lead over Paris and lie behind Shanghai.

The new FinTech index, published for the first time alongside the GFCI, is dominated by Chinese centres taking five of the top seven places in the index, led by Beijing and Shanghai. New York, London, Singapore, San Francisco, and Chicago also feature in the top ten for FinTech.

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Source: Long Finance


OECD sees rising trade tensions and policy uncertainty further weakening global growth

September 19, 2019--The global economy has become increasingly fragile and uncertain, with growth slowing and downside risks continuing to mount, according to the OECD's latest Interim Economic Outlook.
Economic prospects are weakening for both advanced and emerging economies, and global growth could get stuck at persistently low levels without firm policy action from governments, according to the Outlook.

Escalating trade conflicts are taking an increasing toll on confidence and investment, adding to policy uncertainty, aggravating risks in financial markets and endangering already weak growth prospects worldwide.

The OECD projects that the global economy will grow by 2.9% in 2019 and 3% in 2020- the weakest annual growth rates since the financial crisis, with downside risks continuing to mount.

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Source: OECD


Climate change and artificial intelligence seen as risks to investment asset allocation, finds new report by BNY Mellon Investment Management and CREATE-Research

September 16, 2019--Research outlines impact on asset allocation as a result of these 'supertanker' trends.
Two secular forces or 'supertanker' trends, climate change and artificial intelligence (AI), are reshaping the future of investing, finds a new research study launched today by BNY Mellon Investment Management and CREATE-Research.

89% of the institutional investors ("investors" or "respondents"), with combined assets under management of approximately $12.75 trillion, that took part in extensive and structured interviews as part of the study regard the two supertanker trends as investment risks.

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view the Future 2024: Future proofing your asset allocation in the age of mega trends

Source: BNY Mellon


IMF Working Paper-A Guide to Sovereign Debt Data

September 13, 2019--Summary:
The last decade or so has seen a mushrooming of new sovereign debt databases covering long time spans for several countries. This represents an important breakthrough for economists who have long sought to, but been unable to tackle, first-order questions such as why countries have differential debt tolerance, and how debt levels affect the scope for countercyclical policy in recessions and financial crises.

This paper backdrops these recent data efforts, identifying both the key innovations, as well as caveats that users should be aware of. A Directory of existing publicly-available sovereign debt databases, featuring compilations by institutions and individual researchers, is also included.

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Source: IMF


Global disinvestment from fossil fuels tops $11trn

September 11, 2019--Global disinvestment from fossil fuels has crossed the $11trn mark-a massive leap from committed disinvestment of just $52m in 2014.

This represents around 16% of global investment in fossil fuels.

The disinvestment figure was announced at briefing in Cape Town on Monday before the start of an international summit, 'Financing the Future', organised by the global fossil free movement, a collaboration of non-government organisations campaigning for banks, pension funds, insurers and other large institutions to disinvest from fossil fuels.

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Source: FIN24


IMF-Staff Discussion Note-A Capital Market Union For Europe

September 10, 2019--Summary:
This note weighs the merits of a capital market union (CMU) for Europe, identifies major obstacles in its path, and recommends a set of carefully targeted policy actions. European capital markets are relatively small, resulting in strong bank-dependence, and are split sharply along national lines. Results include an uneven playing field in terms of corporate funding costs, the rationing out of collateral-constrained firms, and limited shock absorption.

The benefits of integration center on expanding financial choice, ultimately to support capital formation and resilience. Capital market development and integration would support a healthy diversity in European finance. Proceeding methodically, the note identifies three key barriers to greater capital market integration in Europe: transparency, regulatory quality, and insolvency practices. Based on these findings, the note urges three policy priorities, focused on the three barriers. There is no roadblock-such steps should prove feasible without a new grand bargain.

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Source: IMF


New Index Tracks Trade Uncertainty Across the Globe

September 9, 2019--Rising trade uncertainty is cited as a driving factor for "sluggish global growth" in the current issue of the IMF's World Economic Outlook, which describes the state of the world economy.
But how is trade uncertainty measured? How has it evolved over time? Are changes in trade uncertainty confined to specific countries and regions of the world?

A new measure of trade uncertainty finds that by this measure of uncertainty it is surging, and not just in the United States and China, where trade tensions are highest, but also in many other countries.

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Source: IMF


Platforms' best-buy active funds underperform index trackers

September 6, 2019--Questions raised over brokers' recommendations in wake of Woodford fund debacle

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Source: FT.com


Risk--free bonds threaten to be return-free, too

September 6, 2019--Investors should target the glaring mismatch between equity and debt pricing

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Source: FT.com


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