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MENASource

Jul 19, 2021

Women in venture capital: “We don’t need to fix women—we need to fix the system,” says Middle East investment executive

By Stefanie Hausheer Ali

On July 14, 2021 the Atlantic Council’s empowerME Initiative held a workshop featuring a keynote fireside chat with Lazard Gulf Limited CEO Farah Foustok. Read the key takeaways.

Economy & Business
Middle East

AC Selects

Jul 18, 2021

AC Selects: Recovery, democracy, and technology

Week of July 18, 2021 This week, hear from WTO Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, US Department of State’s Amb. Philip Reeker, Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas, and Minister for the Armed Forces of the French Republic Florence Parly talk COVID-19 recovery, democracy, and technology. Related events

Digital Policy
Economy & Business

UkraineAlert

Jul 18, 2021

Ukraine’s faltering efforts to privatize state-owned banks

By Mark Savchuk

The Ukrainian government is committed to reducing its estimated 55% stake in the country's banking system by overseeing the privatization of state-owned banks, but progress remains painfully slow.

Economy & Business
Financial Regulation

Fast Thinking

Jul 16, 2021

FAST THINKING: Biden’s China policy is coming into focus

By Atlantic Council

What do this week's moves on Xinjiang and Hong Kong signal about the Biden administration’s emerging China policy? Our experts on economic statecraft connect the dots.

China
Economy & Business

New Atlanticist

Jul 15, 2021

Why China’s digital currency threatens the country’s tech giants

By Jeremy Mark

China's drive to develop technologies fueled by data has given its corporate crackdown a more profound purpose: to expand the data sources available to the government.

China
Digital Currencies

In the News

Jul 15, 2021

Lipsky quoted in Fortune on the national security implications of CBDCs

By Josh Lipsky

Read the whole article here.

Digital Currencies
Digital Policy

In the News

Jul 15, 2021

O’Toole quoted in VOA Russian on Russia’s response to Cuba protests

By Brian O’Toole

Read the whole article here.

Cuba
Economy & Business

In the News

Jul 15, 2021

Fulton’s report on China’s changing role in the Middle East was mentioned in The Shillong Times

By Atlantic Council

China
Economy & Business

Blog Post

Jul 15, 2021

The Fed should scrap its reverse repo in favor of a standing repo facility

By Hung Tran

The recent growth of the Federal Reserve’s Overnight Reverse Repo (ON RRP) has validated concerns that it has too large a footprint on US money markets, creating potential financial stability hazards. To address this, the Fed should abolish the ON RRP and instead launch a Standing Repo Facility.

Economy & Business
Financial Regulation

BelarusAlert

Jul 14, 2021

Putin and Lukashenka are locked in a dysfunctional axis of autocrats

By Brian Whitmore

Vladimir Putin and Alyaksandr Lukashenka are bound together in an axis of autocrats but the two dictators are also locked in a game of cat and mouse over Kremlin efforts to expand Russian influence in Belarus.

Belarus
Financial Sanctions and Economic Coercion

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