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RPT-COLUMN-Killing rush hour with help from green bonds: Mike Dolan Reuters 8 hrs ago By Mike Dolan
(Repeats with no changes. The author is editor-at-large for finance and markets at Reuters News. Any views expressed here are his own.)
By Mike Dolan
LONDON, April 30 (Reuters) - Of all the post-pandemic futurology going on at the moment, the idea of using green bonds to facilitate the death of city rush hours will have few objections from weary commuters.
Economists, businesses and investors have for the past year tried to imagine the lasting impact of the COVID-19 shock on cities, workplaces and the transport that gets us around them.
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Interview
Interview on CBDCs with James Pomeroy, Global Economist, HSBC Friday 23 April 2021 08:53 CET | Editor: Claudia Pincovski | Interview
Ahead of
The Paypers has sat with
James Pomeroy, Global Economist at
HSBC to delve into the latest CBDC projects and highlight the benefits, risks, unknowns these projects entail
Could you please tell our readers a bit about your professional background and how does your experience tie into topics such as CBDCs, stablecoins, and crypto (maybe)?
I’m a global economist at HSBC, so I’m looking at these topics from an economist’s perspective. So, while a lot of the analysis focuses on technological issues, I spend my time thinking about what these forms of digital money could mean for payments and monetary policy – and, crucially, whether they will make our lives better.
Britain's economy will be back to its pre-COVID-19 level around the middle of next year, according to economists in a Reuters poll who said unemployment would peak at 6.2% as 2021 draws to a close and the pandemic job support scheme ends.