The WTO is experiencing a serious crisis arising from tensions that are internal to the global trading system. Ignacio García Bercero identifies four critical areas for WTO reform to reinforce the rules-based trading system
AI challenges how businesses operate
AI is challenging how businesses operate. Jonathan Sharp says that organisations must rethink how decisions are made, not just who makes them, but how they are triggered, validated and executed to ensure a successful implementation strategy
Can AI make cutlery?
Andrew Bailey highlights how UK economic growth has slowed since the Financial Crisis. He examines AI and suggests gains may take time, depend on complementary innovation, and bring uncertain effects on jobs, making investment in skills essential
Modernising money and markets
As technology evolves, Sarah Breeden sets out the Bank of England’s vision for UK finance: a robust, multi-money retail payments system that promotes greater competition and innovation, and a multi-asset, multi-currency approach to tokenising the markets of the UK’s global financial centre
Clinical supervision
Sam Woods reflects on the nature of banking supervision. Taking stock of how supervision has evolved in the UK and internationally, he considers what the role of a supervisor is and how it might evolve in future
How to get the green and the deal
Europe is recalibrating its industrial policy in response to external challenges. Maive Rute, Frank Vandermeeren and Anca Dumitrescu investigate the goals of this recalibrated approach and the key components for success
Tax
Has the global minimum tax survived Trump?
It is accepted that international tax competition is harmful. Pascal Saint-Amans writes that US objections have not killed off the 15 percent global minimum tax, but they have altered it and given the US a competitive advantage
Balancing profit shifting and investment
The global minimum tax represents the most ambitious international effort in decades to curb profit shifting to tax havens. Katarzyna Bilicka, Michael Devereux and Irem Güçeri argue that profit shifting doesn’t just affect tax revenues, it alters investment incentives, creating fundamental trade-offs that cannot be ignored
Sanctions without borders?
Thematic sanctions are being increasingly used as a foreign policy tool. Henrietta Worthington and Jaime Rosenberg consider the benefits and challenges for multinational organisations operating across jurisdictions
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