5 things I learned on the future of global finance at Davos 2024
Leaders were cautiously optimistic on the global economic outlook, but major transitions and the reordering of international trade were also hotly debated.
Huw van Steenis is vice chair at Oliver Wyman and is also co-chair of the World Economic Forum's Global Future Council on Responsive Financial Services.
He is the former Senior Adviser to the Governor of the Bank of England, where he chaired a review into what the future of finance means for the bank’s priorities.
Steenis worked at Morgan Stanley from 2002-16, latterly as Global Head, Banks and Diversified Financials research. Here he and his teams won numerous awards, including being voted number one in investor surveys 12 times and twice Starmine’s stock picker of the year for financial services.
From 2016-18, he served as Global Head of Strategy at Schroders. He has also served on various boards and committees, including the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council for Financial Services and Disruptive Innovation in Financial Services working group; the European Central Bank’s Contact Group on Macro-Prudential Policies and Financial Stability (2015-17), the IIFs Market Monitoring Group and the Board of the English National Opera.
Leaders were cautiously optimistic on the global economic outlook, but major transitions and the reordering of international trade were also hotly debated.
La guerra de Ucrania, la reapertura china, la crisis energética, el cambio climático y la desglobalización cambiaron los debates sobre inversión, inflación y los tipos de interés.
The war in Ukraine, China's reopening, the energy crisis, climate change and deglobalization dominated investment discussions around inflation and interest rates.
At COP27, investors and financial institutions learned they must find the opportunities and navigate the risks of energy transition in a changing world.
The mood at Davos 2022 was the gloomiest since 2009. The war in Ukraine, surging inflation, tightening monetary policies, dismal markets, crypto unravelling, and a long economic hangover ...
金融技术为银行和初创企业指明了提供多种类服务,满足客户需求的新路径。虽然我们看到一些市场已经在金融普惠方面取得了巨大进步,但这种进步是不平衡的,全球各地还有很多值得学习的地方。
A new white paper by the Global Future Council on Responsive Financial Systems shows 3 ways we can shape public policy to enable financial inclusion.
新冠肺炎大流行让我们看到,许多机构对这次几代以来最大的全球挑战准备不足。然而,它也催生了“战时”速度和智慧。现在,我们必须将这些特质融入到重塑大流行后全球金融体系的努力之中。
La transition énergétique est une énorme opportunité pour les investisseurs.
The COVID crisis underscores the urgency to enable innovation, build financial infrastructure and resilience for the economic recovery
Climate risk analysis of companies and portfolios is moving out of a specialised niche and into the mainstream.
This year's downbeat mood could be a good sign, as the Davos consensus tends to be a reliable contrary indicator. Here are three big finance themes from behind the scenes.
It was the nature of the big transitions - the implications of AI, Blockchain, Big Tech power, quantitative tightening, ruse of impact investing and the populist revolt against globalisat...
The mood at Davos was the most divergent it has been in years. Some American bosses were notably bullish about accelerating economic growth and a regime change in fiscal, regulatory and t...
The mood at Davos was the gloomiest since 2009. Dismal markets, oil, China – plus the challenges of disruptive technology, the refugee crisis and poor market liquidity – dominated debates...