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Senegal develops its national data strategy in partnership with Smart Africa and GIZ

Experts from stakeholder groups and actors of the digital economy met to collect and exchange information on data infrastructures, the regulatory framework, governance and data uses in Senegal March 28, 2023/Smart Africa As part of the Senegal Digital Strategy 2025 (SN2025), and in partnership with Smart Africa and GIZ via […]

Credit Suisse Rescue Supported by Switzerland’s Fiscal Space

March 27, 2023/Fitch Ratings The takeover of Credit Suisse by UBS avoids a full-blown banking crisis with sizeable spillovers to Switzerland’s public finances, but highlights how the sector represents a contingent liability risk for the sovereign, Fitch Ratings says. The fiscal cost of the authorities’ intervention will depend on how […]

Testimony by Vice Chair for Supervision Barr on bank oversight

Vice Chair for Supervision Michael S. Barr Before the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, Washington, D.C. March 27, 2023/US Federal Reserve Chairman Brown, Ranking Member Scott, and other members of the Committee, thank you for the opportunity to testify today on the Federal Reserve’s supervisory and […]