The Institute of International Finance (IIF) has published it's Sustainable Finance Monitor - April 2024

This week’s Digital Finance Developments covers funding for and advancements in quantum computing, including progress toward commercialization and regulation of this emerging technology.

Despite strong incoming economic data, rising protectionism, heightened geopolitical tensions, and high government debt levels are casting a shadow on medium to long-term growth global prospects.

In 2023, frontier market (FM) accumulated some $20 billion of new debt, bringing the total to $3.5 trillion. For the first time since 2020, the FM debt-to-GDP ratio increased, as growth and inflation subsided.

The March 2024 edition of the Global Regulatory Update provides targeted updates on current workstreams and events.

The Institute of International Finance (IIF) has submitted a response to the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) consultation on Financial Sector Metrics.

Edition of the Digital Finance Download covering March 2024. A monthly update of significant developments in digital finance around the globe.

Transitioning towards a sustainable agricultural system is crucial to address biodiversity loss and nature-related risks on the path to a net-zero economy. This shift will be quite challenging—perhaps even more so than the clean energy transition—given that over 330 million people across 78 countries are currently facing an acute level of food insecurity.