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ECB will look afresh at policy this autumn – Draghi
Draghi says recovery is continuing, but strikes cautious note on inflationary pressures
France should broaden macro-prudential oversight – FSB report
Country should widen its outlook to include asset managers and other risky areas, peer review finds
Central Bank of Paraguay re-enters markets with World Bank support
World Bank to provide assistance on efficient portfolio management following re-entry into international markets
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As internet access increases and encryption technology improves, digital currencies have the capacity to reduce operating costs, increase efficiency and enable a wide range of new applications
Fan Yifei, PBoC deputy governor
I have always strived to maintain the appropriate balance between transparency and confidentiality, but I regret that in this instance I crossed the line to confirming information that should have remained confidential
Jeffrey Lacker, former president, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
Market discipline is done away with by interventions by the ECB. So there is no fiscal control mechanism from markets or politics. This has all the elements to bring disaster for monetary union
Otmar Issing, founding executive board member, European Central Bank
If the Americans do not implement the Basel III framework, we Europeans will certainly not introduce the new rules unilaterally – and the whole world will suffer the consequences
Andreas Dombret, member of the executive board, Deutsche Bundesbank
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St Louis’s Bullard on the future of the Fed and its monetary policy record
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Draghi, quo vadis?
BoJ faces growing communications challenge
Fixing the ‘perverse incentives’ in the SLR
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Are central banks allowing markets to get a bad name?
Tackling the ‘human agency’ problem
Basel action needed before ‘regulatory cycle’ turns
BoE paper warns escape from secular stagnation may ‘beggar thy self’
FCA threatens further action against firms “misleading” customers
Non-banks drive rebound in cross-border banking – BIS
Debate over Kenya’s growth potential continues – Njoroge
IMF official says Mexico’s outlook seems bright
RBNZ sees no need to impose prescriptive cyber-security rules now