The 80th Anniversary of the First Meeting of the IMF Executive Board

Last week marked the 80th anniversary of the first meeting of the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund. It is difficult to know what the atmosphere was like on 6 May 1946, when twelve Executive Directors gathered at the Washington Hotel for their first meeting. Yet those people began building what was then described as something entirely new in the history of international monetary practice — and what would become one of the most important bodies of monetary policy in the world.

IMF at 80: The Executive Board and the Evolution of Global Financial Cooperation

In May 2026, the International Monetary Fund marks an important institutional milestone: the 80th anniversary of the first meeting of its Executive Board. On 6 May 1946, the first Executive Directors of the IMF met in Washington, D.C., beginning the operational life of an institution created to help stabilise the international monetary system after the devastation of the Great Depression and the Second World War. The IMF’s own first Annual Report records that its operations began from that first meeting of the Executive Directors in Washington. (IMF)

Dominic Ashford Interviews Svetlana Gerey: How to Plan Life and Business Before 2027

How families, entrepreneurs and investors can plan life, business, travel, education and budgets in a world of oil shocks, geopolitical uncertainty and economic turbulence.

Category: 100News.TV: Business & Growth Interview
Format: 100News.TV Interview
Presenter: Dominic Ashford, Business & Growth Presenter, 100News.TV
Guest: Svetlana Gerey, Vice-President, International Consortium Global Development Alliance

As oil prices, geopolitical tensions and inflation risks reshape the global agenda, Dominic Ashford, Business & Growth Presenter at 100News.TV, speaks with Svetlana Gerey, Vice-President of the International Consortium Global Development Alliance, about how families, entrepreneurs and investors should plan life and business before 2027.

Dominic Ashford:
Good evening, and welcome to 100News.TV, the international information and analytical platform where we look beyond the headline and try to understand what global events really mean for people, businesses, families and the future.

Today, the world is again divided between what people are watching and what may actually shape their lives.

Millions follow football, sport, celebrities and emotional stories. At the same time, oil prices, sanctions, inflation, bond markets and geopolitical tensions quietly influence household budgets, business plans, travel decisions, children’s summer camps, investment strategies and even the emotional state of families.

Inflation is the rate at which the general level of prices for goods and services is rising, and, consequently, the purchasing power of currency is falling.

Bond markets (also known as the debt market or credit market) are financial markets where participants can issue new debt or buy and sell debt securities.

To discuss this deeper layer, I am joined by Svetlana Gerey, Vice-President of the International Consortium Global Development Alliance.

Svetlana, thank you for joining us.

Svetlana Gerey:
Thank you, Dominic. It is a pleasure to be here. I think this conversation is important because people today are surrounded by information, but very often they do not have a clear system for understanding what this information means for their own lives.

“People Search for Football, but Their Lives Are Priced in Oil”

Congress of Business 2026 in Glasgow: From COP26 Legacy to Practical Climate Action, Business Resilience and Sustainable Growth

Glasgow’s Congress of Business brings together civic leaders, chambers of commerce, universities, investors and sustainability experts to turn climate ambition into measurable action and commercial opportunity.

 

By 100%NEWS

Glasgow has once again become a meeting point for business leadership, climate strategy and practical economic transformation. The Congress of Business 2026, known as COB26, returned to the city on 12 May 2026 during Glasgow Climate Week, bringing together senior business leaders, sustainability decision-makers, civic representatives, academics, investors and innovators to discuss how climate ambition can be transformed into measurable action, resilience and commercial growth. According to Glasgow Chamber of Commerce, COB26 is a high-level summit designed to help organisations move from climate commitments to practical implementation, with a particular focus on resilience, growth and climate leadership.

The event was held at SWG3 in Glasgow and led by Glasgow Chamber of Commerce. It was delivered in partnership with the British Chambers of Commerce, Scottish Chambers of Commerce, the University of Glasgow and E.ON UK. Glasgow Chamber of Commerce describes Congress of Business as one of the key convening moments between COP summits, keeping climate action at the top of the business agenda and connecting business leadership with practical delivery.

TOP 100 Women in Business will meet at the World Woman Forum 2026 in Davos, 9-12 July

Women have always participated in economic life. Across centuries, women traded in markets, managed farms, produced textiles, ran family workshops, operated shops, financed community activities and sustained local economies. But in many societies, their work was informal, legally restricted or attributed to male relatives.

The modern story of women in business becomes more visible in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries, when women began to appear publicly as merchants, industrialists, financiers, publishers, beauty entrepreneurs, fashion founders, educators and owners of scalable businesses.

Dr Olga Azarova: “Children Should Learn to Solve Problems”

MINIBOSS BUSINESS SCHOOL is one of the most recognisable international brands in children’s business education. Its mission is ambitious and unusual: to teach children entrepreneurship, invention, leadership and financial thinking from the age of six.

Over the years, the MINIBOSS methodology has helped develop tens of thousands of young entrepreneurs around the world — children who learn not only how to build a business, but how to think independently, solve problems creatively and realise their own potential.

One of the Biggest Risks for Investors 2026

For nearly the entire period following the 2008 crisis, global financial markets operated in an unusual monetary reality: interest rates in developed countries were historically low, liquidity was abundant, inflation was relatively subdued, and central banks moved almost in sync. The U.S. Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank, the Bank of England, the Bank of Japan, and other regulators differed in details, but the overall direction was clear: cheap money, market support, accommodative policy, and a readiness to rescue the system at the first sign of stress.

That era shaped a whole generation of investors who grew accustomed to the idea that market declines were often met with new liquidity, that debt burdens were manageable under low rates, and that growth assets benefited from cheap capital. But today, one of the biggest risks is that investors may still be viewing a new world through the lens of the old era.