Simon French
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first heard Sep 2025
last heard Sep 2025
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or the bank, I think, in taking this stance is um
You know, that disintermediation
may happen
anyway, due to the actors uh or actors in the world economy moving um stores of value around just outside the sterling system.
And that would was uh I hope I think I did put a line in my column about this, which is uh the risk is that you know the UK is not participating and therefore sterling as you know competing for the wallets across equity markets, debt capital markets, um fair currency.
just shrinks as a proportion.
of the wallets that investors around the world with a global mandate will look to allocate to.
And that comes through with a cost of capital implication, cost of capital through for the public sector.
And for the private sector.
Um it's a competitive game and I think, you know, going back right to the very start of this podcast
I think the Trump administration get that better than most for all their other um uh f if you like, challenges that they present to the world markets.
Absolutely.
And um uh that talks to the fact that um you know uh there are some very powerful uh digital retailers, um and not just retailers but also those platforms you can think of social media platforms who have recently played around with their own payment systems, um uh that really have no interest in um
um in dollars or in sterling or yen or yuan or any real line of sight to a sovereign government and its um funding requirements and its control over financing conditions.
It just cares about as efficient a platform for its consumers and its um its sellers.
And uh you're absolutely right.
They will um
uh try and facilitate uh an ecosystem that is if as efficient as possible, taking away some of that control of
um monetary conditions, financing conditions, you know, those levers of the macroeconomy, um, if if governments don't get out ahead of this and central banks don't get out ofhead of the money.
Well
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