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A low-key G-20 meeting

The first-ever G-20 meeting of Heads of State was a relatively quiet event , without the presence of President-elect Obama. Two main areas seem to have been discussed : • Regulatory reform, where finance ministers have been given until the end of March to work out new rules for the world's financial...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-18-2008
Iceland calls in IMF

As the blog predicted , Iceland has been forced to call on the IMF for help. Finally, the country's leaders have recognised that their $20bn economy couldn't support the level of debt built up during the 'go-go' years. The pity is that it took them so long to recognise reality - and by...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-09-2008
‘Sometimes those questions lead to war’

The weekend’s finance minister meeting in Washington DC seems to have been quite different from its predecessors. Not only did they apparently have an ‘informal brainstorming session’ at one point, but they also found themselves confronted with two major and on-going crises: • We have to ‘put food into...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 04-15-2008

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