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Our series examines how regulators, investors and central banks are embracing the promise—and bracing for the peril—of evolving financial technologies...

The ongoing fragmentation of the world economy marks the likely end of an era characterized by increasing integration through trade and finance. Faced with a...

Banks’ enthusiasm for open finance, which expands the scope of open banking to allow third parties to access a broader range of customer data from...

As severe weather systems and natural disasters become more frequent, utility companies are passing the cost of repairing their systems on to customers. And because...

Many economists, journalists, business leaders, and elected leaders (from both parties) believe that for a large share of households, real (inflation-adjusted) income has not increased...

For more than a year, every new inflation number seems to have caught observers by surprise. But in recent months the surprise has been from...

For months, many macroeconomic observers have been likening Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s unenviable position to that of Fed Chair Paul Volcker in the early...

More than half of the world’s population lives in cities, and it’s expected that almost 70 percent will live in urban areas by 2050. People...

Global debt remained above pre-pandemic levels in 2021 even after posting the steepest decline in 70 years, underscoring the challenges for policymakers. Total public and...

UK chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s decision to revisit the bank ring-fencing regime as part of his financial regulation reform agenda – the so-called ‘Edinburgh Reforms’, lauded...