The OMFIF Podcast

Apr 08 2025 100 ep. 28 mins 302
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CBDC plans energised by stablecoin momentum

Apr 08 2025 28 mins  
OMFIF’s 2024 survey of central banks found that, while three-quarters of respondents are continuing their plans to issue central bank digital currencies, one-third have delayed their timelines. However, this was before the change in US government and the decision not to pursue CBDCs, instead prioritising digital assets. A follow-up OMFIF survey revealed that this development has

Trade, investment and their impact on sustainability

Apr 08 2025 31 mins  
Amelia Santos-Paulino, chief of investment research at the United Nations Trade and Development's investment and enterprise division, joins OMFIF to discuss some of the key priorities in sustainability for UNTAD in 2025. She considers the space for trade and investment flows in international climate discussions, particularly in the face of recent elections. She also discusses the c

How political shifts are reshaping sovereign investment strategies

Mar 11 2025 37 mins  
Max Castelli, head of strategy for sovereign institutions, and Philipp Salman, director of strategy for sovereign institutions at UBS Asset Management, join Yara Aziz, economist at OMFIF, to discuss how sovereign investors are adapting their strategies for 2025. They explore US President Trump’s policies, the outlook for the dollar and the impact of artificial intelligence on the

Unified ledgers: opportunities and legal challenges

Jan 28 2025 32 mins  
Discourse on the rewiring of payments and financial markets has been dominated in 2024 by talk of unified ledgers. The technical promises and challenges this architecture entails are gradually becoming better understood, but before the prototypes can become reality, the legal challenges must be fully explored. Natalie Lewis, partner at Travers Smith, joins Lewis McLellan, editor of

Turning women’s entrepreneurial potential into economic opportunity

Jan 14 2025 25 mins  
Wendy Teleki, head of the Women Entrepreneurs Finance Initiative at the World Bank, joins Arunima Sharan, senior economist at OMFIF's Economic and Monetary Policy Institute, to discuss how the We Finance Code is tackling the $1.7tn financing gap facing women entrepreneurs. They explore We-Fi's work across 80 countries and examine how supporting women-led businesses creates positive

Tokenisation: a new model for collaboration

Jan 09 2025 35 mins  
Tokenisation is frequently discussed as a means of improving the efficiency of existing financial markets, but the technology may offer the chance to create entirely new types of economic activity. The immense reach of distributed ledger technology-based tokens makes them a vector of greater inclusion to types of markets previously inaccessible to the general public. Additionally,

From plans to impactful strategies transforming transition finance

Jan 09 2025 32 mins  
Yara Aziz, economist at OMFIF’s Economic and Monetary Policy Institute, speaks with Ashleigh Lee, co-lead secretariat of the City of London Corporation’s Transition Finance Market Review, to discuss the findings of the Transition Finance Market Review report. They explore the challenges and opportunities in scaling transition finance, strategies to prevent greenwashing and the

From petrodollar to petroyuan?

Dec 13 2024 35 mins  
Mark Sobel, US Chair, OMFIF, speaks with Max Castelli, head of strategy, sovereign institutions, UBS Asset Management, on the role of the US dollar and the various dedollarisation scenarios. They discuss significance of Saudi Arabia’s decision to join the mBridge multi-currency CBDC platform and the potential implications for the incumbent USD-based financial system.

Risks and opportunities for investment grade credit in 2025

Dec 10 2024 27 mins  
Flavio Carpenzano, fixed income investment director at Capital Group, joins Burhan Khadbai, head of content for OMFIF’s Sovereign Debt Institute, to look back at the performance of the investment grade credit market in 2024 and the outlook for next year. They discuss how credit spreads are continuing to compress despite elevated levels of supply and to what extent this will evo

Behind the post-election crypto bump

Dec 03 2024 47 mins  
Bitcoin's price has surged following Donald Trump's victory in the US election. Trump's campaign was calculated to appeal to the crypto world, so the move comes as no surprise, but what are policy changes can we expect and do they warrant this kind of explosive price action? To discuss these questions, Lewis McLellan, editor of the Digital Monetary Institute at OMFIF, is joined by