In order for digital money to serve the public good, the public need to trust it. UK policymakers should look to the US’ ECASH Act for …
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Reinventing leadership: building resilience through a period of uncertainty
With Positive Money’s Executive Director taking leave, and the Interim Director due to take on the role withdrawing unexpectedly, our team …
Finance and energy security: what happened last week?
There’s a lot of news unfolding fast at the moment, and last week was no exception. So here we’ve condensed the key climate developments …
The injustices of financial exclusion faced by asylum seekers, refugees, and migrants
Re-imagining the economy: An interview with Last Mafuba, Founder and CEO of mental health charity, Inini. Content Trigger warning: The …
Remodelling finance in 2008’s image: Banks make a play for deregulation post-Brexit
The Treasury is considering giving the UK's financial regulators a new objective to increase the 'international competitiveness’ of the …
CBDC: A solution in search of a fair hearing?
A new report from the House of Lords on central bank digital currency (CBDC) shows that politicians still don’t understand the problems with …
12 Days of Cash: Christmas 2021 Series
You may have been following our social media series the #12DaysofCash over the Christmas period. If so, you’ll know that cash is under …
Are price controls the solution to inflation woes?
Increasing the price of money through higher interest rates would be a crude and potentially damaging way of dealing with inflation, …
How currency power constrains climate action
‘Climate finance’ commitments are woefully inadequate while inequalities in currency power force Global South countries to extract …