Recently, I attended a 2-day gathering of 600 people from all over the world for a summit in Vancouver Canada with many bankers, regulators and economists. The GABV is an international network of small and mid-sized bankers who are already going against the grain to do banking differently:  for banking on values at the risk of immediate short-term profits, for banking to meet real commun...

The Dutch Scientific Council for government policy (WRR) presented its report on the monetary system on the 17th of January 2019. The report is called “Money and Debt, the public role of banks”. The main objective of the report is to describe in depth the role that banks play in the current monetary system and how money is created. It has to advise the government on this system and to...

Brussels - EU Commissioner Varoufakis has announced a citizens' dividend. For every European, € 25,000 is available for debt reduction. This follows the switch to the digital euro. Over 80% of all savings balances have now been converted. As of today, deposits are no longer freely available. The citizens’ dividend will be paid out in July and can be used to reduce bank loans. Those wh...

*|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT   Dear friend, The International Movement for Monetary Reform currently stands at a critical point financially. To continue our work to create a just and stable money and banking syste...