Policy-makers and market participants can see much potential for financial crisis in France – and little for durable calm.

With France facing major fiscal challenges as well as political constraints narrowing the room for manoeuvre, what is the outlook for French fiscal action and under what circumstances could Europe ...

Policy-makers in London, Washington and Frankfurt will confront a question who should receive the income generated by central ...

International Monetary Fund-World Bank annual meetings in Bangkok centred around one dominant theme how can we preserve what ...

The facility left Belém with $6.7bn of its junior target and most discussion since has concerned how the remainder might be ...

Despite rising concerns over public debt, US Treasuries remain the cornerstone of global reserves because of their unmatched liquidity and depth. Max Castelli, head of strategy for sovereign ...

Meetings, which are geared primarily to OMFIF members and are subject to the OMFIF Rules, are held in a wide-ranging series of economic, financial, monetary and public policy fields in major financial ...

Andrew Bailey, governor of the Bank of England, joins OMFIF chairman David Marsh to discuss the evolving role of central bank independence amid persistent economic shocks, heightened geopolitical ...

Contagion holds the key to possible use of transmission protection instrument The European Central Bank has been stoutly – and legitimately – resisting any suggestion of using its four-year-old ...

According to the old parable, a frog placed in tepid water that is heating slowly lingers until it is too late and boils to death. Is the parable applicable to the future of independent central banks?