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Asean economy is poised for a recovery in 2021

“The Eurosystem has so far not made a decision on whether to introduce a digital euro." - ECB President Christine Lagarde.

Is a digital Euro the next step towards ever-closer union?

Clearly, what was once unthinkable and unprecedented is now rapidly turning into the norm — with no end in sight.

The US Federal Reserve has started buying corporate bonds in the secondary market, but it is not the first of its peers to do so.

While the ghosts of the aftermath of the global financial crisis (GFC) continue to lurk in investors’ and the public’s memories, the reality is that banks will be a key element of the economic solution to the present predicament.

(Dec 13): Recent jumps in equity prices and bond yields suggest that recession fears are receding. But the global economic expansion cannot last forever, and when the next recession comes, central banks may not be adequately prepared to respond. Enhancing

(Dec 9): Almost five weeks since Mario Draghi retired from running the European Central Bank (ECB) and finding an outright fan of his legacy of negative interest rates has become a lot harder.

(Nov 18): The titans of finance have a new foe, and it’s not UK Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn or senator Elizabeth Warren. Wall Street’s elite are attacking Europe’s central banks over their reliance on negative interest rates, saying they are h

SINGAPORE (Oct 18): Here is the silver lining to slowing world growth: We are a long way from 2009, when the global economy contracted. The bad news is that this balancing act is looking increasingly shaky.