In this episode of Current Account, Clay is joined by Ziad Haidar, a Partner and Global Director of Geopolitics, Singapore, McKinsey & Co., to discuss one of the most important topics in the financial services industry: Geopolitics.

Clay and Ziad begin the podcast with detailing the increased prominence of geopolitics in recent years, before discussing the role of resilience for financial services firms, what risks are front of mind in the near future, approaches in preparation for dealing with risks that are unpredictable in nature, whether geopolitics will become a permanent risk to monitor or not and much more.

This IIF Podcast was hosted by Clay Lowery, Executive Vice President, Research and Policy, with production and research contributions from Christian Klein, Digital Graphics and Production Associate and Miranda Silverman, Senior Program Assistant.

In this episode of Current Account, Clay is joined by IIF's Managing Director and Chief Economist, Marcello Estevão, to give an update on the Federal Reserve and discuss its recent decision to make a 25-basis point rate cut. Clay and Marcello begin by discussing the rate cut and what it signifies for the U.S. economy as a whole, including the state of inflation, unemployment and overall growth.

The discussion then shifts to answering forward-looking questions: What does this rate cut mean for the economy? How will this impact policymaking, wage pressure, and labor fragmentation?

Finally, Clay and Marcello discuss how the Fed - specifically Chair Jerome Powell - may view the labor market and what moves may come from other global markets following the most recent rate cut.

This IIF Podcast was hosted by Clay Lowery, Executive Vice President, Research and Policy, with production and research contributions from Christian Klein, Digital Graphics and Production Associate and Miranda Silverman, Senior Program Assistant.

In this episode of Current Account, Clay is joined by IIF's Andrés Portilla, Managing Director of Regulatory Affairs, and Katie Rismanchi, Deputy Director of Regulatory Affairs, to talk about banking supervision - namely developments and recent trends in how supervision is approached across the globe. The discussion begins with a key question: Why is banking supervision important?

The podcast continues with a discussion on the response to supervisory turmoil in recent years, issues and flaws within current supervisory procedures and processes, potential solutions to aid in increased supervisory effectiveness and transparency, how progress can be - and may already have been - measured and much more.

For more information about this topic, read the IIF's recent paper on supervisory effectiveness here.

This IIF Podcast was hosted by Clay Lowery, Executive Vice President, Research and Policy, with production and research contributions from Christian Klein, Digital Graphics and Production Associate and Miranda Silverman, Senior Program Assistant.