About us

entral Banking Publications - Trusted intelligence on the world's financial authorities.

Central Banking Publications is a financial publisher owned by Incisive Media specialising in public policy and financial markets, with emphasis on central banks, international financial institutions and financial market infrastructure and regulation. Central Banking Publications was founded in 1990 and acquired by Incisive Media in 2007.

Robert Pringle, the chairman, is a former editor of The Banker and former executive director of the Group of Thirty. Central Banking Publications is supported by a prestigious advisory board whose members include a Nobel-prize-winning economist and former governors of the US Federal Reserve and the International Monetary Fund.

Editorial Advisory Board

Johannes Witteveen
Managing Director, International Monetary Fund, 1973-78

Sir Samuel Brittan
Financial Times

A.W. Clausen
President, World Bank, 1981-86

Leonhard Gleske
former Board Director, Deutsche Bundesbank

Charles Goodhart
Professor Emeritus, London School of Economics

André de Lattre
Deputy Governor, Banque de France, 1966-74

Allan H. Meltzer
Professor of Political Economy, Carnegie Mellon University

Robert A. Mundell
Professor of Economics, Columbia University

Ian Plenderleith
Deputy Governor, South African Reserve Bank, 2003-05

Otmar Issing
Member of the Executive Board, European Central Bank 1998-2006

Alexander K. Swoboda
Professor of International Economics, Graduate Institute of International Studies and Development

Joseph Yam
Chief Executive, Hong Kong Monetary Authority, 1993-2009

Y.V. Reddy
Governor, Reserve Bank of India, 2003-08

Donald Brash
Governor, Reserve Bank of New Zealand, 1988-2002

Luděk Niedermayer
Vice Governor, Czech National Bank, 2000-08

Journals

Central Banking Publications publishes 2 quarterly journals, Central Banking Journal and Speed.

Central Banking Journal - Since its foundation in 1990, Central Banking Journal has been the only regular, independent publication for and about central banks. The journal is read by subscribers in 130 countries, and in over 120 of the world's central banks. Former ECB director and Italian finance minister Tommasso Padoa-Schioppa describes the journal as "an essential contribution to the coverage of policy issues facing central banks". Recent contributors and interviewees include Masaaki Shirakawa, governor of the Bank of Japan, Dr Zeti Akhtar Aziz, governor of the Central Bank of Malaysia, Frederic Mishkin of the Federal Reserve Boardand leading economists and thinkers such as Robert Shiller, Edmund Phelps and Mohamed El-Erian.

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SPEED - Launched in summer 2006, Settlements, Payments, E-money & E-trading Development or SPEED, focuses on policy developments affecting financial infrastructures at the national and international levels. Recent interviews have included the ECB's Gertrude Tumpel-Gugerell and Gerard Hartsink, chair of the European Payments Council.

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CentralBanking.com

Central Banking Publications is a leading provider of online news for and about international capital market developments through its independent online news service, CentralBanking.com. Subscribers to CentralBanking.com have access to exclusive content that is segmented according to their own specialities. Core areas include monetary policy, payment systems, supervision, reserve management and risk management. Over 50 central banks subscribe to CentralBanking.com.

To take out a 2 week trial to the CentralBanking.com service, please register here.

Books

Central Banking Publications publishes a range of specialist books, directories and research studies for central bankers, financial market authorities and related professionals and practitioners. The publications focus on three main areas: central banking itself, financial regulation and supervision, and international finance, and speak to the practical and policy needs of the central banking community.

For details of our full range of Central Banking books please visit the riskbooks.com website.

Events

Drawing on the publisher's independent outlook, Central Banking Publications organises specialist seminars for financial policymakers, hosted by experts in the fields of central banking and financial regulation.

Conferences

In 2008, Central Banking Publications launched its series of Sovereign Wealth Management conferences with two events in London and Singapore that attracted more than 120 participants from the official sector and stakeholder community.

As an independent financial commentator, it is our mission to facilitate informed, cooperative and productive discussion between the key stakeholders through these high-level Events.

Seminars & Training

Since 1999 Central Banking Publications has organised annual residential training courses/seminars in Cambridge, and Cumberland Lodge Windsor. More than 1,800 central bankers and supervisors from over 110 countries have attended. Past attendees have included central bank governors and deputy governors from South Africa, Indonesia, Namibia and Moldova, and senior executives from central banks around the world.

Roundtables & Study Groups

In addition to our annual training courses, Central Banking Publications hosts several high-level study groups for central bankers around the world. The Central Banking Financial Reporting Study Group is attended by chief accountants and deputy governors from 25-30 countries. The Reserve Assets Group is an invitation-only discussion group for central bank reserve managers held in London and Singapore.

For more information on Central Banking events visit www.incisive-events.com.