Opinion

Key questions for Marcus

Gill Marcus, governor-designate of the South African Reserve Bank, will have her work cut out in maintaining the central bank’s hard-won credibility

Ten heroes of monetary gold

Timothy Green, a journalist who has written about gold for 40 years, lists the ten individuals and institutions that have most shaped the precious metal's monetary history

Our outdated global monetary regime must go

From its roots in post-war reconstruction, the current international monetary system has evolved into a regime fundamentally unsuited to the realities of today's global economy. But it cannot last, writes Ousmene Mandeng

Are Libor spreads near the new normal?

A decline in interbank spreads shows confidence is returning. But, the margins at which spreads settle are likely to reveal much about how the crisis has changed the face of finance for years to come, Claire Jones, the editor of CentralBanking.com, says.

A proposal to aid emerging-market stability

Ousmene Mandeng, the head of public sector investment advisory at Ashmore, an asset management firm, believes there is a more efficient way for emerging market central banks to use their reserves to stave off a disorderly unwinding of their capital…

Bring back Glass-Steagall?

Suddenly, everybody is talking again about separating merchant banking from commercial banking. Ideas that a few months ago might have been dismissed as crackpot - bringing back a version of the Glass-Steagall legislation - now look as if they were ahead…

Taking Santiago forward: a 12-point plan

Sven Behrendt, an associate scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, presents a blueprint for a 12-point action plan on how the International Working Group of Sovereign Wealth Funds could move forward with the industry code of conduct…

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