Strategic Insights

Global energy crisis is fueling fierce debate over which new energy projects should or shouldn’t go ahead.

Close interaction between Asia’s political elites and business family dynasties may stifle innovation and impede the region’s future growth.

Nature-related emergencies, from natural disasters to the extinction of plant and animal species, will also be business emergencies.

3 arguments in favour of CBDC including the need to evolve monetary systems as transactions involving physical cash decline

President Lula will need to find international support to reverse deforestation in the Amazon and achieve “zero deforestation”

The report by UN experts draws a “red line” around false claims of progress in the fight against global warming

More than half of the world’s central banks are exploring or developing digital currencies which they will issue and regulate

The rise in interest rates is a big factor. Higher rates make banks more profitable and help them grow.

World economic integration has been in decline since the 2008–10 global financial crisis, ushering in an era of “slowbalization”

Review of two green lending instruments, green and sustainable loans, regarding their impact on firms’ ESG performance.

Climate change is landing blow after blow upon humanity and the planet, an onslaught that will only intensify in the coming years.

Central banks and regulators need to take a differentiated approach to various crypto innovations.