
The Financial Climate Has Reached a Tipping Point
Sep 23, 2020 sees disclosure standards and other financial-industry trends moving in a “greener” direction.
Huw van Steenis, a former senior adviser to Bank of England Governor Mark Carney, is Chair of Sustainable Finance at UBS and a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on the Monetary and Financial System.
Sep 23, 2020 sees disclosure standards and other financial-industry trends moving in a “greener” direction.
Apr 21, 2020 urges central banks to respond to the rise of new payment technologies with extreme caution.
Nov 13, 2019 explains how policymakers should respond to the decline of cash and an explosion in new payment methods.
Huge fiscal and monetary stimulus programs have sparked a growing debate about whether advanced economies may sooner or later experience the sort of rapid price growth last seen a generation ago. While stimulus advocates point to current weak demand and the public’s deeply ingrained low-inflation expectations, anxious hawks fear that a new and dangerous global inflationary consensus may be taking hold.