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Actionable insights for global currency management

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Converge is your biweekly source for expert insights into global foreign exchange markets. Each episode breaks down what’s driving currency movements, why it matters, and how your business can respond with confidence.

Hear from Convera specialists and industry voices on central bank policy, geopolitical risk, liquidity shifts, and emerging market dynamics. You’ll also find the occasional deep dive into cross-border payments, providing broader context on how money moves globally.

Episodes

  • May 2, 2024 00:12:51 Host: Alex Lawrence Guest: Boris Kovacevic

    April has been about many things. In the United States, it was about inflation surprising to the upside and investors pricing out rate cuts from the Fed. In Asia, it was about a strong dollar leading central banks to verbally or physically intervene in FX…

  • April 24, 2024 00:37:56 Host: Alex Lawrence Guest: Siqi Chen

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  • April 17, 2024 00:12:37 Host: Alex Lawrence Guest: Boris Kovacevic

    The macro markets look a lot different now than they did at the beginning of April, and the story has once again been US economic data to blame for volatility. With the 3-month average jobs growth running at 244 thousand and 3-month annualized core inflat…

  • April 10, 2024 00:32:32 Host: Alex Lawrence Guest: Jessica Cath

    In light of Sam Bankman Fried’s recent 25-year prison sentence and the FTX collapse, what are the deeper implications on the crypto industry as we move into a new era of digital asset adoption? In this week’s episode, we discuss the erosion of trust, the …

  • April 3, 2024 00:12:40 Host: Alex Lawrence Guest: Boris Kovacevic

    2024 has so far been about US soft data surprising the consensus to the upside and investors paring back their expectations for rate cuts across the developed world. Naturally, this has led both government bond yields and the US dollar higher. However, th…