Global Get Down - A Global Affairs Podcast by IRSA
Global Get Down - A Global Affairs Podcast by IRSA
45 episodes
1 month ago
Join us for a conversation with Karen Mathiasen and Nico Martinez, a project director and research assistant both working at the Center for Global Development in Washington, D.C. on stablecoins and their use cases for international financial institutions. For the next half hour, our guests break down the definition of a stablecoin, the dangers of their adoption, the extent of existing regulation around them, and how they might be useful in the realm of development finance despite those risks.
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Join us for a conversation with Karen Mathiasen and Nico Martinez, a project director and research assistant both working at the Center for Global Development in Washington, D.C. on stablecoins and their use cases for international financial institutions. For the next half hour, our guests break down the definition of a stablecoin, the dangers of their adoption, the extent of existing regulation around them, and how they might be useful in the realm of development finance despite those risks.
Get Down with Karen Mathiasen: Deep Dive into Multilateral Development Bank (MDB) Reform
Global Get Down - A Global Affairs Podcast by IRSA
51 minutes 16 seconds
1 year ago
Get Down with Karen Mathiasen: Deep Dive into Multilateral Development Bank (MDB) Reform
Karen Mathiasen, Project Director at the Center for Global Development (CGD) in Washington DC, joins us for a Deep Dive into Multilateral Development Bank (MDB) Reform.
She discusses, among other things, shareholder dynamics at the World Bank, the Bridgetown Agenda, the recently concluded Spring Meetings, her appraisal of the World Bank’s reform agenda and some of the issues to watch out for in MDB Reform, with Host Gaurav.
Global Get Down - A Global Affairs Podcast by IRSA
Join us for a conversation with Karen Mathiasen and Nico Martinez, a project director and research assistant both working at the Center for Global Development in Washington, D.C. on stablecoins and their use cases for international financial institutions. For the next half hour, our guests break down the definition of a stablecoin, the dangers of their adoption, the extent of existing regulation around them, and how they might be useful in the realm of development finance despite those risks.
