Communication
Is a bond market crisis imminent?
Central banks need careful action and a good dose of luck if they are to avoid financial instability
Central Banking Awards 2022: the winners in full
Recipients of the 2022 awards include Stanley Fischer, the Bank of Korea, Mario Marcel and many more
Transparency: Czech National Bank
New monetary policy report, and publication of attributed minutes and economic model raise the bar for disclosure
BoE’s Broadbent highlights perils of forward guidance
Deputy governor warns conditional guidance is often viewed as a promise to act in a certain way
Communications initiative: Bank of Jamaica
‘Centrally Speaking’ underpins not just education, but monetary policy
Governor of the year: Mario Marcel
Chile’s governor has expertly navigated a third currency crisis in two years, amid wider EM stress and political volatility, while bolstering the central bank’s capabilities
West African central bank denies devaluation
CFA franc has been pegged to European currency since establishment
BoE aims to boost comms with new ‘visual identity’
Design overhaul aims to help central bank reach a wider audience, BoE says
Bailey seeks to clarify controversial comments on wage restraint
BoE governor says firms need to curb price rises to limit impact on poorest households
Diego Labat on policy normalisation, capital flows and tech challenges
The Central Bank of Uruguay governor speaks with Christopher Jeffery and Ben Margulies about governance, financialisation, flexible rates versus capital controls, payment upgrades and CBDCs
Brazil’s Campos Neto: markets show less fear of Lula win
Presidential candidate reported to have embraced central bank independence
ECB maintains stance but Lagarde hints at hawkish policy turn
Lagarde's press conference remarks seem to differ from policy statement, analysts say
Podcast: collaboration as the key to better data
Regnology’s Joanne Horgan explains how central banks are working with industry to enhance supervisory data collection
Wunsch sceptical on forward guidance
Belgian governor says tool may be effective in a stable environment of below-target inflation
Cyber security risks rose most in the past year
Operational and market risks also increased
Reputational risk tops central bank concerns
Cyber security and credit/counterparty risk followed
BoE to publish ‘pop-economics’ book
‘Can’t we just print more money?’ is latest step in educational push by central bank
Central bank social media trends in the ‘Instagram age’
Uptake of visual social media platforms rises, as Facebook usage plateaus
The matter of minutes: Why open up private deliberations?
Many central banks publish records of MPC meetings, but far fewer publish vote tallies. Where should public scrutiny stop?
How Turkey’s president created chaos in economic policy-making
Observers allege presidential domination of the central bank, unauthorised FX transactions and untrustworthy statistics
Digitisation: transforming the role of central banks
With the rapid pace of technological change in global financial markets, central banks are increasingly recognising that many legacy tools, methods and manual processes are inadequate, writes Sachin Somani
Reforming FX reserve and macroeconomic management for ESG
Arnab Das, global market strategist, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, at Invesco explores why central banks must play a role in ESG risk mitigation, management and prevention, as they are expected to during wars, pandemics and other major shocks.
Furlough uncertainty delayed BoE rate hike – Bailey
Roughly a million people were still using the job protection scheme when it ended, governor says
Central bank signals could be impacting natural rate – BIS paper
“Learning process” could explain decline in interest rates without drop in productivity, authors say