Interview/Financial Stability
Interview: Agustín Carstens
The governor of the Bank of Mexico tells Claire Jones about how the central bank is improving its capacity to safeguard financial stability
Interview: Sir Andrew Large
The former deputy governor of the Bank of England talks to Robert Pringle about how officials can better safeguard stability, and bankers’ behaviour in the run-up to the crisis
Interview: Linah Mohohlo
The governor of the Bank of Botswana talks about how the country avoided the resource curse and efforts to develop its financial markets.
Interview: Patrick Honohan
The governor of the Central Bank of Ireland tells Claire Jones what went wrong in Ireland and how he plans to stop it happening again.
Interview: Andrew Haldane
The executive director for financial stability at the Bank of England talks to Robert Pringle about lessons from the crisis, the macroprudential toolkit, links between monetary policy and financial stability, and whether the banking industry needs to be…
Interview: Charles Plosser
The president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia talks to Claire Jones about financial reform, how monetary policymaking needs to change and the dangers of assuming central bankers can remedy all economic ills.
Interview: Donald Kohn
Blair Baker talked to Donald Kohn on 9 July about his career at the Federal Reserve, monetary policy, the crisis and the future of financial regulation.
'Basel II was a big mistake': Larry Meyer exclusive interview
The former Fed governor, now vice-chairman of Macroeconomic Advisers, talks to Credit about the US central bank’s handling of the financial crisis, and gives his views on where US monetary policy is heading.
Interview: Sanusi Lamido Sanusi
The governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria discusses banking reform, the Volcker rule, and the role of lenders in society
Interview: Charles Plosser
President of the Philadelphia Federal Reserve tells Central Banking Publications why central banks must review how monetary policy translates into inflation; warns against viewing monetary institutions as omnipotent
Interview: Gill Marcus
The governor of the South African Reserve Bank tells CentralBanking.com why reforms can’t be rushed and discusses the role of central banks within society
Interview: Howard Davies
The founding chairman of the UK Financial Services Authority discusses Britain’s new regulatory architecture, weaknesses in the European Central Bank’s voting arrangements, and how inflation targets need to change
Interview: Peter Praet
Fortis’s collapse all too well illustrated the difficulties in saving cross-border European banks. But the ideal solution, a European crisis resolution authority, remains a distant dream. However, there is an existing, yet perhaps unusual, candidate from…
Interview with Abdellatif Jouahri
The governor of Bank Al-Maghrib talks to CentralBanking.com about the success of the country’s financial reform efforts
Interview: Heng Swee Keat
In an exclusive interview, the managing director of the Monetary Authority of Singapore discusses the impact of the financial crisis and how monetary and regulatory policies will change as a result
Interview: Robert Mundell
The Nobel Prize-winning economist tells Robert Pringle floating exchange rates lies at the heart of global financial instability
Interview with Barry Eichengreen
Berkeley economist Barry Eichengreen talks to CentralBanking.com on the IMF’s new role, reserve currencies and the future of economics as a science
Gudmundsson on Iceland’s collapse and recovery
Már Gudmundsson, the governor of the Central Bank of Iceland, discusses the authority’s rebuilding efforts and whether euro membership is right for them
RBI's Subbarao on reviving growth, decoupling and global imbalances
The governor of the Reserve Bank of India discusses his objectives for his first term and how the decoupling argument needs to be revised
Central concerns
José Manuel González-Páramo, a member of the ECB’s executive board, talks to Risk about the role of the central bank and the need for greater oversight and transparency in the derivatives market
Liquidity lessons from the crisis
Daniel Heller, the head of the Basel-based CPSS, discusses propsoed reforms for payments, clearing and settlements
BIS's Cecchetti on inflation, imbalances and instability
The head of the Bank for International Settlements' monetary and economic department, on how central-bank policy should change in light of the crisis
Smee on speedier payments
The chief executive of APACS discusses the UK’s first National Payments Plan and the impact of the new Faster Payments service