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May 2020 Currency Outlook

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Our international payments partner, Western Union Business Solutions, provides us with monthly economic insight impacting global currency markets.

Downtown Den #042 | ‘Brains Trust’ in the Den

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It was a pleasure to welcome Jessica Bowles from Bruntwood & Mike Emmerich from Metro Dynamics into the Den and hear their thoughts and predictions about the current crisis and the opportunities and challenges we are likely to face in its aftermath.

Downtown Den #041 | The Future of Sport

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Recently appointed shadow sports Minister Alison McGovern was in the Downtown Den, offering her views on how the football season may resume; how business can learn from sport; and what she hopes Birmingham can achieve by hosting the Commonwealth Games.

The Government are managing the crisis badly. Fact.

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In his latest blog Frank McKenna explains why giving any government a ‘pass’, even during a crisis, would be an afront to democracy – and outlines why he thinks Boris Johnson and his colleagues are struggling to manage the Coronavirus crisis effectively.

Grimmer and grimmer

Could we be facing a year of Corvid crisis with all its implications for social and business disruption? That’s the fear that Jim expresses this week as he sees few lights at the end of the tunnel. He also speculates what might have happened if David Miliband had become Prime Minister 10 years ago.