by Luca Ricci
by Luca Ricci
New Tether USAT will change the global landscape of stablecoins and likely influence the US Treasuries market tether.io/news/tether-...
Tether Unveils USA₮, its Planned U.S.-Regulated Dollar-Backed Stablecoin, and Will Appoint Bo Hines as CEO of Tether USA₮ - Tether.io
The introduction of USA₮ and appointment of Bo Hines marks Tether’s next chapter in strengthening U.S. dollar dominance through transparency and innovation 12 September 2025 – Tether, the largest comp...
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by Luca Ricci
by Luca Ricci
Please join me for this event on Thursday organized by OMFIF, where we discuss developments and policy issues related to Digital Payments in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Sub-Saharan Africa's digital payments innovation: insights from the IMF - OMFIF
Luca Antonio Ricci, mission chief and assistant director of the International Monetary Fund’s Africa department, joins OMFIF to present the IMF’s latest departmental paper on digital payments innovati...
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❓Why do the Nordics & Dutch speak English so much better than the Germans, Italians & French?
➡️ New Working Paper:
Out-of-School Learning: Subtitling vs. Dubbing and the Acquisition of Foreign-Language Skills
w/ F. Baumeister & E. Hanushek
www.nber.org/papers/w33984
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➡️ New Working Paper:
Out-of-School Learning: Subtitling vs. Dubbing and the Acquisition of Foreign-Language Skills
w/ F. Baumeister & E. Hanushek
www.nber.org/papers/w33984
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by Luca Ricci
Our paper on Digital Payment Innovations in Sub-Saharan Africa is finally out!
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Digital Payment Innovations in Sub-Saharan Africa
This paper takes stock of developments and policy issues related to digital payments innovations across sub-Saharan African (SSA), including central bank digital currency (CBDC), fast payments systems...
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by Luca Ricci
Luca Antonio Ricci, Advisor IMF African Department
Tommaso Mancini Griffoli, Division Chief IMF Monetary and Capital Markets Department
Xiangming Li, Advisor IMF African Department
Tommaso Mancini Griffoli, Division Chief IMF Monetary and Capital Markets Department
Xiangming Li, Advisor IMF African Department
by Luca Ricci
Abebe Aemro Selassie, Director of the IMF African Department, Tobias Adrian, Financial Counsellor and Director IMF Monetary and Capital Markets Department
Vitaliy Kramarenko, Deputy Director IMF African Department
Vitaliy Kramarenko, Deputy Director IMF African Department
by Luca Ricci
A great thank you to all the key speakers:
Lesetja Kganyago, Governor of the South African Reserve Bank,
Jean-Claude Kassi Brou, Governor of the Central Bank of West African States (BCEAO),
Bo Li, IMF Deputy Managing Director
Lesetja Kganyago, Governor of the South African Reserve Bank,
Jean-Claude Kassi Brou, Governor of the Central Bank of West African States (BCEAO),
Bo Li, IMF Deputy Managing Director
by Luca Ricci
This was organized as part of the IMF African Department Working Group on CBDC and Digital Payment that I am co-leading.
by Luca Ricci
The rise of digital money and payments has transformed the payment landscape in Sub-Saharan Africa. Policymakers explored the future policy agenda related to digital payments, aimed at improving financial inclusion and payment efficiency.
by Luca Ricci
As part of the IMF-WB 2025 Spring Meetings, we held a High-Level event on “Digital Innovations in Payments: Sub-Saharan Africa Future Agenda”:
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Digital Innovations in Payments: Sub-Saharan Africa Future Agenda
The rise of digital money and payments has transformed the payment landscape in Sub-Saharan Africa. Policymakers explored the future policy agenda related to digital payments, aimed at improving finan...
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by Luca Ricci
Thanks to the WAEMU regional authorities with whom we had excellent meetings, and to the WAEMU team for the tireless efforts.
by Luca Ricci
I am happy to report that the IMF Executive Board concluded on Friday May 2nd the 2025 Discussions on Common Policies of Member Countries of the West African Economic and Monetary Union.
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IMF Executive Board Concludes 2025 Discussions on Common Policies of Member Countries of the West African Economic and Monetary Union
Economic growth continues to be strong in the WAEMU. Inflation has fallen back to its target range, and recent improvements in regional external imbalances are supporting a strong recovery in reserves...
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by Luca Ricci
This is another opportunity for Europe to start denting the US$ financial dominance in global markets (the could not take advantage of the GFC )
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/b...
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Bond Sell Off Raises Questions About U.S. Safe Haven Status
As the fallout from President Trump’s global trade war spreads, investors are fleeing what is typically seen as the safest corner.
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by Luca Ricci
The importance of boredom www.facebook.com/share/r/18fi...
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by Luca Ricci
This discusses more broadly the USA South Africa relations, the land reform, and the US welcoming Africaners www.cnn.com/2025/03/14/p...
Rubio says South African ambassador ‘no longer welcome’ in US | CNN Politics
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Friday said that South Africa’s ambassador to the United States “is no longer welcome in our great country.”
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by Luca Ricci
www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/t... “The main loser in each case [IMF and WB] would be the US itself.…For the Fed, the situation is, if anything, more dire”
The Fed, the Fund, and the Bank in Trump’s Crosshairs | by Barry Eichengreen - Project Syndicate
Barry Eichengreen explains why the US president’s second administration, unlike his first, is targeting all three.
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by Luca Ricci
“That’s the world we’re going into,” he predicted, adding “I don’t think we’re going back to the one we had before.”
by Luca Ricci
Sir Alex Younger, the former head of MI6, the British spy agency, said in a BBC interview that it reminded him of the Yalta Conference — the meeting of Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin in 1945 — where “the strong countries decided the fate of small countries.”
18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people:
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We're not done yet | 18F
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by Luca Ricci
The text of US reassessment of its position in international organizations www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Withdrawing the United States from and Ending Funding to Certain United Nations Organizations and Reviewing United States Support to All International Organizations
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.
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by Luca Ricci
Implementing all these tax cuts will require also a lot of spending cuts…. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/u...
Republicans Want Lower Taxes. The Hard Part Is Choosing What to Cut.
House Republicans are preparing to adopt a plan that puts a $4.5 trillion limit on the size of the tax cut, but even that will not be enough for some of President Trump’s promises.
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by Luca Ricci
If conflict of interest is now perceived as easy, the next decade or so will see a change in institutions in the USA, www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/u...
Trump Pushes Business Interests in Golf, Mideast and New York as Conflicts Abound
Norms recognized for decades in Washington by both parties no longer appear to apply to the Trump White House, former prosecutors and ethics lawyers say.
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by Luca Ricci
www.facebook.com/share/v/19nY... una barra di 43cm lasciata sulla posta causa il danno al concorde nel 2000
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by Luca Ricci
Interesting analysis of trump foreign policy, the US$ dominance, high foreign holdings of reserves and of US gov bonds, $ exchange rate adjustment, and US current account
unherd.com/2025/02/why-...
unherd.com/2025/02/why-...
Donald Trump's economic masterplan
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