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Growth Fears Dent Commodities Prices

December 13, 2018--Many key commodities are on track to notch declines this year, underlining how fears of slowing growth, global-trade tensions and a persistently strong dollar have hammered prices for raw materials.

The Bloomberg Commodity Index is down by more than 6% this year, led by a nearly 13% fall in oil prices. Other raw materials are also headed lower: Copper is off almost 16% this year, while iron ore has lost nearly 6%. Gold prices have declined by around 5%, and lumber is down by almost 28%.

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Source: Wall Street Journal


Basel Committee publishes updated Basel III disclosure requirements

December 11, 2018--The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has published today updated Pillar 3 disclosure requirements. These requirements, together with the updates published in January 2015 and March 2017, complete the Pillar 3 framework.

Pillar 3 of the Basel framework seeks to promote market discipline through regulatory disclosure requirements. The revised Pillar 3 framework reflects the Committee's December 2017 Basel III post-crisis regulatory reforms and pertains to the following areas:
credit risk, operational risk, the leverage ratio and credit valuation adjustment (CVA) risk;
risk-weighted assets (RWAs) as calculated by the bank's internal models and according to the standardised approaches; and
an overview of risk management, RWAs and key prudential metrics.

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Source: BIS


World Economic Forum Report Addresses Crisis of Trust, Slowing Growth in Our Digital World

December 10, 2018--The digital world is facing a crisis with slowing internet growth and declining levels of trust that urgently need to be addressed
60% of global GDP is expected to be digitized by 2022, with very little distinction between the digital economy and the economy, or between digital society and society.

The Forum highlights six priority areas for action: Access and adoption, identity, positive societal impact, security, governance, and data

Building a digital economy and society that is trusted, inclusive and sustainable requires urgent attention in six priority areas according to a new report, Our Shared Digital Future, published by the World Economic Forum today.

The report represents a collaborative effort by business, government and civil society leaders, experts and practitioners. It follows an 18-month dialogue aimed at restoring the internet’s capacity for delivering positive social and economic development.

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view te World Economic Forum Our Shared Digital Future Building an Inclusive, Trustworthy and Sustainable Digital Society report

Source: World Economic Forum


IMF Working Paper-The Modern Hyperinflation Cycle: Some New Empirical Regularities

December 7, 2018--Using a database of up to 62 variables for 196 countries over 57 years, a hyperinflation cycle has been characterized to propose a broader setting of stylized facts. Beyond the usual facts, the findings in this paper contribute to the literature of modern hyperinflations in that these cycles occur in contexts where there are (i) depressed economic freedoms, (ii) deteriorated socioeconomic conditions and rule of law, as well as (iii) high levels of domestic conflictivity and government instability.

Despite social infraestructure factors improve during stabilization, they keep being substantially lower than the respresentative non-hyperinflation country, suggesting an important role for them in the occurrence of modern hypeinflations. Finally, the role of international financial assistance in stabilization was studied, noting that (i) a clear majority of hyperinflation countries used it, further improving their (ii) economic freedoms, and allowing themselves (iii) greater fiscal flexibility and (iv) more exchange rate stability.

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Source: IMF


IMF Working Paper-Demographics, Old-Age Transfers and the Current Account

December 7, 2018--Building on the evolving literature on the topic, this paper reviews the relationship between demographics and long-run capital flows in both theory and in the data. For this purpose, we develop a two region overlapping generations model where countries differ in their population growth and mortality risk.

Besides exploring the implications of demographics for saving and the current account over the long-run, we also study how these might be affected by differences in the coverage and sustainability of old-age transfer schemes. The model predicts that population structure and life expectancy (which affects the need to save to meet old age consumption) affect current account levels, and that while countries with more generous unfunded transfer schemes tend to have lower saving and more capital inflows over the long-run, this effect may be dampened by natural limits (on taxation) of these schemes. The key predictions of the model are generally supported by a rich panel dataset.

view the IMF Working Paper-Demographics, Old-Age Transfers and the Current Account

Source: IMF


IMF Working Papers-Pouring Oil on Fire: Interest Deductibility and Corporate Debt

December 7, 2018--Summary:
This paper investigates the role of tax incentives towards debt finance in the buildup of leverage in the nonfinancial corporate (NFC) sector, using a large firm-level dataset. We find that so-called debt bias is a significant driver of leverage, for both small and medium-sized enterprises and larger firms, with its effect accounting for about a quarter of leverage.

The strength of this effect differs with firm size, the availability of collateral, income and income volatility, cash flow, and capital intensity. We conclude that leveling the playing field between debt and equity finance through tax policy reform would decrease NFC leverage, reducing economic risks posited by leverage.

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Source: IMF


Fidelity eyes robo-advice launch as banks pile in

December 7, 2018--Fidelity eyes robo-advice launch as banks pile in

Fidelity International is weighing up the launch of a robo-advice service, in the latest sign that fund supermarkets are feeling the pressure to appeal to a wider range of customers amid increased competition.

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Source: FT.com


$11trn emerging-market lure that heralds 2019 revival

December 4, 2018--First, the bad news: corporate earnings across emerging markets aren't as good as analysts hoped.

In four out of every five emerging economies, company finances have fallen short of estimates that were made 12 months ago, according to a study of 25 benchmarks. That's even after analysts cut their forecasts by 6% since a peak in April.

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Source: FIN24


Cyber-resilience: range of practices report issued by the Basel Committee

December 4, 2018--The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision today published the report Cyber-resilience: range of practices. It identifies, describes and compares the range of observed bank, regulatory and supervisory cyber-resilience practices across jurisdictions.

Based on analysis of authorities' responses to previous international surveys and on exchanges between international experts, the report gains insight into the effective practices and expectations in place. It also benefited from industry participants' input.

The Basel Committee classifies the expectations and practices into four broad dimensions of cyber-resilience:
Governance and culture
Risk measurement and assessment of preparedness (both in preventing and recovering/learning)
Communication and information-sharing
Interconnections with third parties

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Source: BIS


BlackRock warns investors to 'build resilience' against recession

December 2, 2018--BlackRock has warned clients to "build resilience" into investment portfolios with the help of new asset-class performance forecasts that it will release this week.

The detailed guides from the world's biggest fund manager look ahead for between five and 20 years.

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Source: FT.com


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