Financial Sovereignty

Canada’s newly elected prime minister, a seasoned technocrat with a resume polished in financial sectors rather than public squares, has entered office promising nothing short of a national renewal. But in the eerie glow of post-election euphoria, one must ask: Renewal for whom? And at what cost? Because beneath the headlines and the press conferences

Image Credit: Photo by Liza Summer on Pexels In early 2025, the Native community development financial institution (CDFI) movement faced a potential blow when the administration of President Donald Trump issued a sweeping executive order that sought to reassess—and potentially cut—federal funding to a wide range of community investment initiatives, including the CDFI Fund and

India is well placed to craft a prudent crypto reserves strategy that boosts autonomy and shields the economy from external shocks. From UPI to crypto reserves: In a move reminiscent of Franklin D Roosevelt’s strategic gold accumulation during the Great Depression, US President Donald Trump’s proposal to create a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve has generated a

The recent 2025 Africa CEO Forum marked a turning point in digital finance discussions, as business and policy leaders highlighted the growing role of stablecoins and digital assets in shaping monetary sovereignty, cross-border trade and financial inclusion across the continent. This is according to Gillian Darko, Chief of Staff and Director of Strategy at Yellow

Financial institutions could scale AI-driven services without breaching compliance requirements by adopting sovereign public cloud infrastructure, according to a whitepaper from Microsoft and Core42. The report, Balancing Innovation and Compliance in the AI Era, addresses how sovereign-enabled public clouds, which keep data within national borders and under local legal control, are being applied across regulated

Executive Summary Climate finance is often framed as a search for new money. Our analysis and the climate finance slider released with this report, shows that the real issue is not scarcity but capture. Extreme wealth and undertaxed multinational profits are plentiful; what is missing is countries’ ability and willingness to tax them. This ability,

Taxing extreme wealth can cover countries’ climate finance responsibilities with billions to spare Applying a minimal wealth tax on the superrich and making multinational corporations pay the dodged taxes they owe can cover the majority of countries’ climate finance costs, and leave most with billions in tax revenue to spare towards public services. A new