All posts tagged "Finance"

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  US Congress agrees debt deal, freezing agency spend but reducing shutdown threat

  President Joe Biden has signed into law the lifting of the USA’s borrowing limit, just days before the government was due to default on its debt, which could have had

  • Posted June 6, 2023
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  Blockchain bonds: digital issuance breakthroughs build buzz

  A growing number of public authorities are exploring the issuance of bonds using blockchain technology. Fintech experts joined a webinar to discuss this emerging field Blockchain – a decentralised shared

  • Posted April 30, 2023
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  UK government must create digital ID ‘super app’, says top financier

  British citizens will one day store their financial data on a single ‘super app’ similar to the NHS health app rolled out by the UK government in 2018, the chair

  • Posted February 16, 2023
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  Canadian finance minister reiterates warning on tight government finances

  Canada’s finance minister Chrystia Freeland has warned that a slowing global economic outlook will require continued restraint in federal public spending. Freeland hosted a meeting with provincial and territorial finance

  • Posted February 8, 2023
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  Hunting down hidden money: how governments are fighting illicit finance

  Experts on the panel of a Global Government Forum webinar shone a spotlight on the scale of illicit finance and the crimes that benefit from it, and explained what governments

  • Posted January 25, 2023
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  ‘Never compromise your integrity’: five minutes with Global Government Summit participant Arturo Herrera Gutierrez

  Arturo Gutierrez, global director for governance global practice, equitable growth, finance, and Institutions Practice Group (EFI) vice presidency at the World Bank, tells Global Government Forum about steering the Mexican

  • Posted January 22, 2023
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  More information but less influence? A dilemma for government finance departments

  Fast-increasing access to data gives treasuries the tools to provide better targeted services, more effective policies and more comprehensive reporting. But at the Global Government Finance Summit, senior leaders worried

  • Posted December 15, 2022
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  Money talks – but does it listen? How government finance departments can help unlock digital transformation

  Finance leaders have much to gain from digital technologies. But at the Global Government Finance Summit, they were told they also have something to give – reforming finance systems to

  • Posted December 12, 2022
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  When the black swans come home to roost: explaining inflation

  The world has had to face a lot of ‘black swan’ disruptive events over recent years – and in responding to these immediate challenges, finance ministries have sometimes created new

  • Posted November 27, 2022
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  COP27: how finance ministries are working to net zero – but ‘missed a trick’ on COVID-19 response

  Much talk at the COP27 has already touched on the centrality of finance to helping the world reach net zero and tackle the effects of climate change, with many developing

  • Posted November 8, 2022
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