Over history, the world has adopted the currency of the leading country for global payments. The USD is, arguably, the first global currency untethered from precious metals. Despite external ...
What was the world's reserve currency before the U.S. dollar? The British pound. Before that? The Dutch guilder. Before the Dutch? The Spanish real. Each transition followed a pattern. The Dutch ...
"A gold standard would restore integrity and stability to the U.S. dollar and the international monetary system—qualities that have been sorely missing for years." — Steve Forbes, Chairman and ...
The 2026 edition will continue this high-level engagement, bringing together finance ministers, central bank governors and senior policymakers from emerging markets and select advanced economies, as ...
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) unveiled a new vision for the future of the global monetary and financial system, centered on a tokenized unified ledger. This innovative framework aims to ...