Italy’s financial system remains broadly sound and has demonstrated resilience in a challenging macrofinancial and geopolitical environment. Since the 2020 FSAP, banks have rebuilt capital, achieved ...

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STEFANIE STANTCHEVA is the Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economy at Harvard and founder and director of the Social Economics Lab.

Artificial intelligence is reshaping how financial firms price risk, allocate credit, and respond to stress. It is increasingly embedded in the decision‑making architecture of the financial system.

The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) concluded the 2026 Article IV consultation with Brazil on July 20, 2026.

The Brazilian financial system has undergone significant change since the 2018 FSAP. While the system remains bank-dominated, with two of the six largest banks state-owned, technology-driven change ...

This publication aims to shape the policy debate on how to deepen the EU single market by proposing a concrete, operational blueprint for an optional EU-wide enterprise regime. It shows how a 28th ...

The UK economy has remained resilient, but the war in the Middle East has dampened near-term growth prospects. Growth is projected to slow to 1.0 percent in 2026 before gradually recovering as the ...

The largest disruption to the global oil market in decades should have sent prices soaring. But after spiking at the start of the war in the Middle East, crude prices soon settled in a range of $90 to ...

Artificial intelligence can boost productivity, create better jobs, and improve public services in sub-Saharan Africa, but realizing these gains will require reliable power, affordable internet, ...

The French economy has remained resilient but faces a more challenging environment as headwinds from the Middle East war have started to weigh on activity and higher energy prices have pushed up ...