Transforming Government – Nine Critical Steps
By Andrew Kakabadse
The transformation of government can no longer rely on past century models of public administration. Effectively integrating structural alignment with the sensitivities...
Solving the Asset–Shortage Problem of Emerging Markets
By Patrick Imam
The growing appetite for emerging market financial assets (such as equity or bonds) by local and foreign investors has not been met...
Conventional versus Islamic Private Equity
By Mohamed Ali Chatti and Ouidad Yousfi
There are some similarities between Islamic and conventional PE, like for example the active participation, the quick exit...
From A Niche Market To The Mainstream: What Has Driven Islamic Banking Growth?
By Patrick Imam and Kangni Kpodar
Despite the rapid growth in Islamic banking during the past decade, challenges remain, pointing to the need for further...
Changes at the top in Chinese Banking
By Violaine Cousin
At the end of October 2011, the heads of the three financial sector regulators were rotated. It is time to ask what...
An Inquiry into Why America Spends While the World Saves
By Sheldon Garon
Recently the issue of saving has become maybe too exciting. Despite a booming economy, household saving rates sank to near-zero levels by...
A Comment on “The American Mortgage System: Crisis and Reform”
By Marvin M. Smith, Anthony Orlando, and Susan Wachter
“If price discovery continues to be unattainable in both the subprime, structured CDO and lower quality...
Emerging Markets are Re-Shaping the Global Economy, But Also Shaking It
By George Magnus
From global tourism to manufactured products, and from industrial processes to modern technologies order, the re-convergence of emerging markets and their economic...
The Causes of the Banking Crises of the 1920’s
By Simon D. Norton
The credit crunch of 2007-2008 shares many similarities in terms of causes with the Depression Era and wave of bank failures...
Rethinking Global Financial Governance Reform
By Daniel D. Bradlow
The limited success over the past few years in reforming global financial governance means that there is a need to reassess...
EDITOR'S PICK OF THE WEEK
The Performance and Transformation Orchestrator: The CFO’s New Mandate in the Age of AI
By Terence Tse
CFOs are evolving into AI-driven transformation orchestrators, balancing finance, technology, and strategy while upskilling teams, managing risks, and driving measurable business value.
A key insight from this year’s AI for CFOs event, organized...
