Articles by Central Banking Newsdesk
Nigeria launches ‘digital naira’ pilot
Central bank issues $1.2 million in retail CBDC after clampdown on private crypto
UK financial firms worried by pandemic risks – BoE survey
Market participants cited cyber risk as the most challenging to address
Bank of Russia raises rates and inflation forecasts
Nabiullina warns central bank will tighten policy further if above-target inflation persists
Bank of Mexico creates environmental and social risk department
Central bank’s attitude to environmental risk might put it at odds with government, says commentator
Chilean president grants Marcel new term as governor
Central bank leader faces continued challenges from pandemic and rapid political change
Fed board member says US community banks under threat
Michelle Bowman says smaller community institutions play vital role for ethnic minorities
PBoC steps up efforts to safeguard cash use
Chinese central bank fines railway $78,000 over refusal to accept cash in ticket office
Fed announces strict new trading rules for senior officials
Regulations would ban individual investments, increase disclosure and restrict transactions
Paraguay’s MPC hikes rates by 125 basis points
Country follows Chile with unexpectedly large tightening as inflation continues to rise
Uganda’s central bank cuts banknote printing costs
Improved processing and new reissuance guidelines streamline banknote management, report says
Fed ethics officials warned against trades
March 2020 advice cautioned against stock transactions in following months
Biden stimulus will cause small, short price spike, says paper
San Francisco Fed predicts American Rescue Plan will boost inflation by 0.3%
Fed’s Quarles says there is no case for a US CBDC
Central banks should not waste resource or risk “significant disruption” to the banking system
BIS launches third green bond fund in Asia
Asian Development Bank and BIS aim to foster issuance of safe green assets
Kenya’s banks told to prepare climate risk plans by 2022
Central bank publishes guidance urging banks to integrate climate risk into broader risk management
CBDC just one option for future payment system, says BoJ official
Japan’s central bank says CBDC could solve safety and interoperability issues, but is not the only option
Gita Gopinath to leave IMF
Fund’s first female chief economist is set to return to Harvard
Forecaster surveys improve eurozone inflation modelling – ECB paper
Households’ and firms’ expectations do not provide useful data on inflation
Delta variant had smaller impact on US consumer spending
Cleveland Fed finds weaker or no link between hospitalisation and spending in 2021
ECB paper examines ‘euroised’ economies
European countries’ informal adoption of euro places limits on central banks, says working paper
BoE launches ‘exploratory’ CCP stress test
Central bank will test credit and liquidity exposures, and will also conduct “reverse stress tests”
Group tests bond settlement on French CBDC platform
Euroclear says CBDC-driven system can plug into existing market infrastructure
Hiking rates before asset sales may constrict credit – paper
Kansas City Fed research says raising the fed funds rate first may cause yield curve inversion