All posts tagged "Finance"

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  Open to possibilities: governments bank on opening up financial services data

  What progress has been made to deliver open banking and open finance across the world? And what role should and could governments play? Ian Hall reports on a Global Government Fintech webinar

  • Posted March 27, 2022
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  ‘We do not stick to conventional wisdom’: five minutes with… Singapore’s Ministry of Finance permanent secretary Tan Ching Yee

  In the first of a new series of interviews where public servants around the world share insights into their lives and career, the permanent secretary of Singapore’s Ministry of Finance

  • Posted March 7, 2022
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  Governments are failing to act fast enough on climate adaptation, warns international panel of scientists

  Climate change is having widespread impacts on human health, economies and natural ecosystems, but adaptation to changes is not being prioritised, according to the latest warning from international climate scientists.

  • Posted March 1, 2022
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  Going green: governments look to fintech to help combat climate crisis

  Green finance focuses on allocating capital to projects that protect or enhance the environment, part of the shift towards environmental, social and governance (‘ESG’) investing. Ian Hall reports on a Global

  • Posted February 17, 2022
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  Calculated risks: the pathfinding role of government finance chiefs

  Finance staff are playing an ever bigger role in strategic decision-making – helping to spot the financial risks in new policies or reforms. At the Global Government Finance Summit, Natalie

  • Posted February 16, 2022
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  Always in the front line: the impossible demands of crisis response

  Since 2008, governments have protected businesses through crisis after crisis, stepping in to safeguard people’s livelihoods and national economies. At the Global Government Finance Summit, Adam Branson heard finance leaders

  • Posted February 8, 2022
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  Fixing governments’ broken financial systems

  Many finance departments have rescued their economies from major crises twice since 2008, but do they have the tools and assets to do so a third time? At the Global

  • Posted January 31, 2022
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  ‘A global inflection point’: Government finance chiefs set out how their countries are launching the post-COVID economy

  The pandemic has done huge damage to growth rates and public finances – but digital technologies, green growth and government interventions offer an economic lifeboat. At the first session of

  • Posted January 20, 2022
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  Breaking down silos: why savvy data management is essential for effective governance

  Governments often face events that threaten their country’s financial stability, create unemployment and increase the need to provide social support services. COVID-19 is one such example – and a big

  • Posted October 12, 2021
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  New Zealand sets out 2021 budget with new inclusive wellbeing framework

  New Zealand has published its annual Budget, setting out an updated approach to wellbeing, explaining how it plans to rebuild the country’s economy after the COVID-19 pandemic, and allocating funds

  • Posted May 20, 2021
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