https://www.scmp.com/rss/515714/feed Dr Oriol Caudevilla is an influential voice in the fintech area. He is an honorary fellow at the Asian Institute of International Financial Law at the University of Hong Kong and a board director at the Global Impact FinTech Forum. He is also a well-known international speaker on central bank digital currencies and blockchain. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com If we are in the midst of a global race for artificial intelligence (AI) breakthroughs, China is definitely a key player. While 2023 has been a year of AI hype – especially for generative AI, amid the popularity of ChatGPT – the industry has been of interest to most countries for years and will only become more important. According to the 2023 AI Index Report by the Stanford Institute for Human-Centred Artificial Intelligence, global investment in AI has significantly increased over the last... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3247052/china-track-be-world-ai-leader-2030-hong-kongs-help?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3247052/china-track-be-world-ai-leader-2030-hong-kongs-help?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 04 Jan 2024 21:30:10 +0000 Oriol Caudevilla Oriol Caudevilla Brazil’s call for a common Brics currency at the Johannesburg summit last month has reignited the debate over de-dollarisation. In recent years, more countries have moved towards carrying out trade in currencies other than the US dollar. This is not new. The dollar’s supremacy has been increasingly questioned – from Latin American states like Brazil to Southeast Asian nations – since the 2008 global financial crisis. But the trend needs to be put into perspective: the dollar remains dominant in... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3234729/brics-has-better-way-de-dollarise-creating-single-currency?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3234729/brics-has-better-way-de-dollarise-creating-single-currency?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 17 Sep 2023 21:30:15 +0000 Oriol Caudevilla Oriol Caudevilla Many countries – from Latin American states like Brazil to Southeast Asian nations – are calling for trade to be carried out in currencies other than the US dollar. Since the 2008 global financial crisis, the dollar’s supremacy has increasingly been questioned. At the World Economic Forum in Davos in January, Saudi Arabia’s Finance Minister Mohammed al-Jadaan said the kingdom was open to trading in currencies other than the dollar, for the first time in 48 years. Last month, Brazilian President... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3221411/how-chinas-digital-yuan-can-chip-away-us-dollars-dominance?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3221411/how-chinas-digital-yuan-can-chip-away-us-dollars-dominance?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 24 May 2023 14:30:17 +0000