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The IMF includes the RMB in the SDR basket
2 Dec 2015

The IMF includes the RMB in the SDR basket

by Simon Taylor | posted in: China, Course material, Economics, International affairs | 0

On 30 November 2015 the IMF voted to include the RMB (the Chinese “people’s currency” denominated in yuan) in the basket of currencies it uses to calculate the value of the Special Drawing Rights, from October 2016. This is largely … Continued

exchange rates, foreign reserves, IMF, liquidity, RMB, SDR
Greece repays IMF using the IMF’s own “currency”
13 May 2015

Greece repays IMF using the IMF’s own “currency”

by Simon Taylor | posted in: China, Course material, Finance sector, International affairs | 1

Greece this week repaid €750m to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) which it funded by drawing on its SDR account at the IMF. This legitimate but unusual move caught many commentators by surprise and drew attention to the little known … Continued

debt, IMF, SDR, sovereigns
Slow progress in reforming the IMF
3 Apr 2014

Slow progress in reforming the IMF

by Simon Taylor | posted in: China, Course material, International affairs | 0

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is a great example of an institution that was created for one purpose – to police the system of fixed exchange rates set up in the 1944 Bretton Woods treaty – which has survived and … Continued

IMF, international finance
Rekindling the spirit of 1944?
14 Feb 2014

Rekindling the spirit of 1944?

by Simon Taylor | posted in: Finance sector, International affairs | 0

The leader of one of our main international financial institutions argues that we need to remember and learn from the cooperative spirit in which the Bretton Woods international financial system was born in 1944. Unfortunately the creation and later success … Continued

imbalances, IMF, international finance
The international financial system isn’t going to be reformed any time soon
13 Nov 2013

The international financial system isn’t going to be reformed any time soon

by Simon Taylor | posted in: Course material, Economics, Finance sector, International affairs | 0

In a recent IMF working paper I came across the term “North Atlantic financial crisis”. I hadn’t heard this before and it was the first clue of several that the report was written by Indian economists with a well justified … Continued

IMF, international finance

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Simon is a member of the finance faculty group at Cambridge Judge Business School. From 2008-18 he was the first Director of the University of Cambridge Master of Finance (MFin) degree, and he is now Director of the University's Global Executive MBA. An economist and former equities analyst at JPMorgan and Citigroup, he teaches on financial markets and institutions, infrastructure finance and the world financial system. He is a Fellow in Economics at St. Catharine's College, Cambridge. His book on nuclear power in the UK was published in March 2016.

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