Global Policy Podcast

Today, I'm joined by one of the sharpest emerging voices in capital markets policy, — Phoebe Chan is a Capital Markets Policy researcher at the CFA Institute's Research and Policy Center, one of the most influential bodies shaping investment standards and market governance globally. At the Research and Policy Center, Phoebe works at the frontier of the questions that matter most for the future of...

For decades, every payment, trade, and transfer ultimately passed a human checkpoint someone who could pause, question, or pull the brake. Autonomous AI agents remove that checkpoint. They can initiate, approve and settle transactions in milliseconds, at a scale and speed no risk team can manually supervise. Joshua Rosenberg spent 22 years at the New York Fed, leading its second line of defence as...

The financial services industry has lived through multiple waves of transformation — internet banking, mobile, cloud, and now tokenization and agentic AI. Each time, the promise was revolution. Each time, most banks barely moved. But something feels different now. Stablecoins are no longer a crypto story. They are fast becoming the settlement infrastructure that the global financial system cannot...