Stolen Future

New Atlanticist Mar 13, 2023

The Fed’s tightening is a recipe for global volatility. Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse is just the start.

By Martin Mühleisen

In this volatile environment, it may take less than a historic shock to cause severe disruption. Governments and central banks around the world better be prepared.
Economy & Business Financial Regulation
Stolen Future

UkraineAlert Feb 9, 2023

Countering Russian threats to global financial security

By Benton Coblentz

Russia and its proxies have long exploited the rules-based global financial system for their personal gain and in service of Moscow’s geopolitical strategy, but the invasion of Ukraine has sparked calls for counter measures.
Conflict Corruption
Stolen Future

Econographics Jan 26, 2023

Global Sanctions Dashboard: How sanctions will further squeeze the Russian economy in 2023

By Charles Lichfield, Maia Nikoladze, and Castellum.AI

The effects of sanctions on the Russian economy; Venezuela’s pursuit of lifting energy sanctions; the plans for screening EU-US outbound investment going into China.
China Economic Sanctions

Content

Issue Brief

May 6, 2016

Stolen Future

By Diane Francis

Diane Francis’ new issue brief, “Stolen Future,” exposes the depth and breadth of the economic devastation a corruption fueled oligarchy has wrought in Ukraine. In the wake of the Euromaidan Revolution, Ukraine has the opportunity to break the cycle of wealth appropriation which has plagued both Russia and Ukraine since the collapse of the Soviet […]

Corruption Democratic Transitions

Report

Apr 5, 2016

Ukraine v. Russia and the Kleptocrats

By Alan Riley

In this new report from the Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center, Alan Riley proposes new legal avenues that Ukraine can pursue to recover asset losses resulting from corruption under the Yanukovych regime and Russian occupation of Ukrainian territory. In this new report from the Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center, Alan Riley proposes new legal avenues that Ukraine […]

Corruption Democratic Transitions

Report

Dec 16, 2015

Diversifying African Trade: The road to progress

By Aubrey Hruby

As World Trade Organization members meet in Nairobi, Kenya, for their 2015 Ministerial, the potential economic impact of African trade—for Africa, but also the rest of the world—has never been more relevant. Home to thirty-three of the world’s least developed countries and only responsible for 3 percent of global trade, Africa stands to reap enormous […]

Africa East Africa

Report

Jun 22, 2015

Renminbi ascending: How China’s currency impacts global markets, foreign policy, and transatlantic financial regulation

By Chris Brummer

How will the rise of China’s currency impact global markets, foreign policy, and transatlantic financial regulation? The report, titled “How China’s Currency Impacts Global Markets, Foreign Policy, and Transatlantic Financial Regulation” offers and elaborates on five principles for an effective internationalization process of the RMB: Agenda setting should be pragmatic, not aspirational; Reforms in legal […]

China Economy & Business

EconoGraphics

Mar 31, 2015

The IMF’s Changing Role in Europe

By Global Business & Economics

The International Monetary Fund's purpose and scope of work have changed since its founding after World War II. Whereas at first the Fund aimed to maintain monetary and exchange-rate stability among its members who were primarily advanced economies, today it faces its first credible challenge to its status as the world's lender of last resort.

Economy & Business Financial Regulation

Issue Brief

Mar 25, 2014

Europe’s Imperfect Banking Union

By Megan Greene

In her latest issue brief, “Europe’s Imperfect Banking Union,” Global Business and Economics Program Senior Fellow Megan Greene argues that the European banking union agreement as it currently stands will fall short of many of its goals and will only be useful in the next crisis, not in definitively ending the current one. A slew […]

Economy & Business European Union

Report

Dec 10, 2013

The Danger of Divergence: Transatlantic Financial Reform & the G20 Agenda

By Chris Brummer

Since the last report on this topic—The Danger of Divergence: Transatlantic Cooperation on Financial Reform, published in 2010 by the Atlantic Council and Thomson Reuters—the United States and Europe have worked to translate an ever-growing body of international financial regulations into legally binding domestic regulations. Although this process has been largely harmonious and remarkably consistent, […]

Economy & Business European Union

Issue Brief

Oct 18, 2012

Encouraging Public-Private Partnerships to Fight Financial Crime

By Alexei Monsarrat

More than five years into the global financial crisis, a host of challenges continue to plague the integrity and health of the financial system. High among these is the ongoing fight to prevent criminals—money launderers, terrorist financiers, and organizations and individuals sanctioned by the international community—from utilizing the system. This fight is chiefly directed by […]

Economy & Business Financial Regulation

Report

Jul 26, 2012

Financial Literacy for a Skilled Future

On June 11, 2012, the Atlantic Council and PricewaterhouseCoopers gathered a cross-section of thought leaders from government, academia, the private sector, and schools from across the nation to discuss structural issues that inhibit effective financial literacy teaching education and training. While several problems were immediately evident—a severe shortage of teachers qualified to teach finance and […]

Economy & Business Financial Regulation

Report

Mar 6, 2012

The Finance Crisis: Lessons Learned from Canada and the Way Forward

By Atlantic Council

On November 16, 2011 the Atlantic Council, Thomson Reuters, the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, and the Embassy of Canada hosted a day-long conference to look at the actions and tools Canada used to so successfully weather the financial crisis. Entitled The Finance Crisis: Lessons Learned from Canada and the Way […]

Economy & Business Financial Regulation
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Julie Chon

Nonresident Senior Fellow

GeoEconomics Center

Americas China

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Oumar Diallo

Director, Fintech and Innovation, Financial Markets Authority

Millennium Leadership Program

Economy & Business Financial Regulation

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Robert Dohner

Senior Fellow

China Economy & Business

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Kimberly Donovan

Director, Economic Statecraft Initiative

Economic Statecraft Initiative GeoEconomics Center

Digital Currencies Economic Sanctions

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Rodrigo Garcia

Deputy Treasurer, Chief Investment Officer & Chief Financial Officer, Illinois State Treasury

Millennium Leadership Program

Economy & Business Financial Regulation

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José Antonio González Anaya

Former Minister of Finance, Mexico

Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center

Financial Regulation Mexico
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