News & commentary
Read the latest financial and monetary policy news and commentary from OMFIF’s in-house analysts and global network of specialists.
The custody question: where are central banks storing gold?
The case for holding gold and the case for where to hold it rest on different logic
Outside candidate may emerge as Lagarde successor
Third French ECB president may prove a palatable outcome
When a credit co-operative fails without formally failing
Brazil’s financial inclusion success story faces a hidden test
Lessons of history as ECB and Fed decide interest rate moves
Warsh’s monetary dilemma and the Bundesbank’s Becket effect
Economic war on Iran will test the limits of US financial power
Isolating Tehran completely risks exporting the economic costs far beyond Iran
Restoring balance to French public finances
Paris fiscal position ‘in uniquely concerning state’
Innovation raises the sovereignty premium
Jackson Hole 2026: why more fluid finance can raise cost of preserving domestic monetary space
Why Europe must stand up to Trump and embrace federalism
More EU integration needed to escape ‘desertification’ of financial markets
Britain’s synthetic CBDC
The UK drops individual stablecoin limits, replacing them with something more structurally interesting
What makes or breaks the digital euro
Europe can build a public digital payment method. What’s more important is whether anyone will use it
