Wealth accumulation shifts from East to West – The Banker
Asia-Pacific’s reign as the leading region for high-net worth individuals (HNWIs) has come to an end, as North America regains its position after five years...
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PODCAST: Robinhood IPO: What to Know if You’re Buying Shares – WSJ
The Robinhood trading app plans to make a large block of shares available to its users before the company goes public on Thursday. WSJ personal...
Drawing Further Apart: Widening Gaps in the Global Recovery – IMF Blog
The global economic recovery continues, but with a widening gap between advanced economies and many emerging market and developing economies. Our latest global growth forecast...
Cryptoassets as National Currency? A Step Too Far – IMF Blog
New digital forms of money have the potential to provide cheaper and faster payments, enhance financial inclusion, improve resilience and competition among payment providers, and...
PODCAST: Financing the start-up economy – The Banker
Simon Bumfrey, Head of Relationship Banking Europe at Silicon Valley Bank speaks to The Banker’s Marie Kemplay about how the banking and funding needs of...
The Zoo Has Gone Nuts: PayPal Will Give Me $25 if I Buy Cryptos – Wolf Street
I got an email from PayPal, with this in the subject line: “Earn a $25 reward when you buy $25+ of crypto with PayPal.” And...
PODCAST: Delta Variant Sparks Concerns About What’s Next For U.S. Economic Recovery – NPR
NPR’s Noel King talks to Heather Boushey, senior economic adviser to President Biden, about how the pandemic is impeding America’s economic recovery, and how vaccinations...
The IMF is right: global economic recovery from Covid could go wron – the Guardian
Given the ebbs and flows of the Covid-19 pandemic, the International Monetary Fund’s assessment of the state of the global economy has changed little over...
Stepping Up to Meet Low-Income Countries’ Pandemic Recovery Needs – IMF Blog
Low-income countries have been hard hit by the pandemic. Their large financing needs are only likely to grow as they deal with the crisis and...
A better way to pay for infrastructure investments – The Financial Times
There is plenty to like about the proposed infrastructure plan of Joe Biden’s administration: who does not want better roads, clean water and faster broadband...