We have been focused on rising risk to emerging markets, especially where idiosyncratic factors point to vulnerabilities . Official intervention ca
The Institute of International Finance ("IIF")1 welcomes the Treasury's continued efforts in support of Executive Order 13772 on Core Principles for R
Argentina's fiscal position worsened under the Kirchner administration. The current government is committed to redressing the situation, and is imp
The April Insurance Update provides targeted updates on IIF insurance activities and events, and highlights relevant IIF publications or related regul
Markets are turning less friendly towards carry trades, which is weighing on EMs with large external funding needs. Earlier this year we scanned EM
Despite U.S. fiscal expansion, the global supply of safe assets may be nearing a cyclical peak' Large U.S. banks report record net income in Q1, helpe
We recently introduced a new activity tracker for China. That tracker displays far more swings than the official GDP data. We explore if swings in cre
We discuss why global growth was so synchronized last year, which we trace back to the Shanghai G20 meeting in February 2016. That meeting followed
Geopolitics boosting oil prices, but this s