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. They are regularly supported by sponsorship from industries working with central banks.

Recently published titles include Central Bank Directory 2010, How Countries Supervise their Banks, Insurers, and Securities Markets 2010, Sovereign Risk Management and Central Bank Management.

In 2010, Central Banking Publications will publish books on management, accountability, and banknote and currency management. A full list of forthcoming books is available on request or can be viewed at riskbooks.com

To view and order all available Central Banking titles visit the Risk Books website.

Just published

RBS Reserve Management Trends 2010

Edited By Robert Pringle and Nick Carver

Now in its sixth year, the only annual survey of central bank reserve managers provides candid insights into the thinking of official sector portfolio managers.

RBS Reserve Management Trends 2010 features an exclusive report of a survey of more than 40 central banks, responsible for more than $3 trillion in reserve assets, on their reaction to the global financial crisis and how they view the key questions facing financial markets and the international monetary system.

Also available in PDF format only or both book and PDF format:

Book only - £230 / US$450 / €345
PDF only - £210 / US$410 / €315
PDF and book - £240 / US$468 / €360

Sponsored by The Royal Bank of Scotland

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The Central Bank Directory 2010

Edited By Robert Pringle

Now in its 20th year, The Central Bank Directory is the only single source of detailed contact information for more than 4,500 senior central bankers and their institutions.

For anyone needing to do business with central banks or understand modern central banking, not to mention the central bankers themselves, a copy of the Directory is indispensable.

The Central Bank Directory remains unchallenged as the only provider of comprehensive, accurate and up-to-date information on all the central banks in a single manageable volume.

Individual entries feature a factual profile of each of the world's central banks, European national central banks and regional Federal Reserves as well as central banks' representative offices.

The Directory expertly guides the user through the changing world of central banking to enable them to go quickly to the information they require.

Each entry lists the decision-makers for key institutional functions such as risk management, reserve management, payment systems, financial stability, supervision, IT, legal risk, audit, communications and personnel.

For two decades central bankers and those who work with them have depended on the Central Bank Directory as an unrivalled source of reliable information on the central banks. It is renowned for its accuracy and its usability.

Price: £195 / $382 / €240

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How Countries Supervise their Banks, Insurers and Securities Markets 2010

Edited By Robert Pringle

How Countries Supervise their Banks, Insurers and Securities Markets 2010 is the only single source of contact details for key regulatory decision-makers in 193 jurisdictions.

How Countries Supervise profiles the 500+ agencies responsible for supervising banks, insurance companies and securities firms around the world.

At a time of unprecedented change in the world of financial regulation and supervision, it provides up-to-date information on personnel and institutional changes - all available at your fingertips in a single volume.

How Countries Supervise their Banks, Insurers and Securities Markets 2010 provides key information about each regulatory agency: its history, its internal organisation and how it works with other regulators nationally and internationally.

The book equips you to:

• Make contact with key individuals: the 2010 edition lists contact details for over 3,000 senior regulatory staff around the world, enabling you to quickly identify and make contact with the decision-makers in any one of hundreds of agencies;
• Understand quickly legal mandates and responsibilities; the powers, responsibilities and functions of each agency are profiled concisely to allow you to quickly understand their work;
• Keep up-to-date with important changes: because our researchers contact all of the profiled agencies every year. You will find in the 2010 edition up-to-date information about important regulatory changes all around the world. All available at your fingertips in a single volume.

Key features:

The facts...fast
For all the leading financial centres, a concise introduction gives overview of the whole regulatory system.

Anti money laundering
For each regulator, the directory lists the lead contact for AML compliance.

Vital statistics
Senior regulators, responsibilities, staffing levels, budgets, number and type of institutions supervised.

Expanded international coverage
The 2010 edition includes details to the key authorities in new regulatory structures as well as hard-to-contact jurisdictions.

Price: £200 / $392 / €246

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Sovereign Risk Management

Edited By Malan Rietveld

Sovereign Risk Management focuses on how official investors should respond to the new challenges they face in managing diverse forms of risk in the aftermath of the crisis that erupted in August 2007. The book includes the insights of a carefully selected roster of experts and practitioners on the management of market, political and regulatory risk.

The global financial crisis that erupted in August 2007 has shed new light on the role of official investors and the assets they manage. In many countries, governments and government-owned entities were called upon to address crises that emerged due to the mismanagement of risk in the private sector. Yet official investors and public institutions need to manage risks of their own - risks that in many cases are unique to them.

Sovereign Risk Management focuses on how official investors should respond to the new challenges they face in managing diverse forms of risk in the aftermath of the crisis. The book includes the insights of a carefully selected roster of experts and practitioners on the management of market, political and regulatory risk.

What is the role of central bank reserves and sovereign wealth funds in managing risks to the domestic economy and financial system?
How can public assets best be invested over the long-term to manage future risks?
How can risks most effectively be identified and managed in the official-sector context?

Sovereign Risk Management focuses on the unique risks faced by sovereign wealth funds and other official investors, and how these risks are changing in the post-crisis financial and political landscape.

Price: £230 / $450 / €282

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Central Bank Management

Edited by John Mendzela and Nick Carver, foreword by Stefan Ingves

While much has been published on monetary policy, little exists on how to manage a central bank and how to tackle the big organisational and management issues that central banks face today. Yet effective management is becoming an increasingly important challenge for senior central bankers, as their institutions come under closer scrutiny with global financial crisis.

This new book, by drawing on a range of experiences from central banks around the world, aims to fill this gap by providing a guide to the management challenges at both a strategic and day-to-day level and how in practice central bankers have changed their organisations. Expert authors draw out the lessons from central banks that have successfully reformed their management styles, cultures and processes to achieve focus and generate value.

Central Bank Management features a chapter reporting the findings of an exclusive survey of management policy and practices in 20 central banks. The results may surprise you.

Key sections of the survey consider:

• Changes in legislation, governance and roles performed 
• Strategic planning - its development and use
  
• Tasks performed by boards
  
• How costs are attributed
  
• Plans for headcount
  
• Performance related pay
  
• Attitudes to outsourcing

Authors include senior current and former central bankers from the European Central Bank, Bank of England, Sveriges Riksbank, Bank of Canada, Reserve Bank of New Zealand, Deutsche Bundesbank, Central Bank of Brazil, Norges Bank, South African Reserve Bank and the Central Bank of Sri Lanka.

Price: £200.00 / $392 / €246

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