Articles by Central Banking Newsdesk
Zambia prepares for debt default
Talks on payment freeze fail as G20 prepares to debate further debt relief
Vocalink to provide Canada’s real-time payments infrastructure
Mastercard company wins contract to provide infrastructure and support services for “real-time rail”
Trump nominee Shelton moving closer to Senate vote
Observers say Murkowski’s statement removes one potential barrier to Shelton being approved
Eurozone must not cut fiscal support too soon – IMF official
Environment favours public investment, but spending must be transparent, says fiscal affairs director Vítor Gaspar
Nordic central banks sign currency swap agreement
Norwegian, Swedish and Danish central banks conclude bilateral swap deals
BoE’s Cunliffe: hedge funds played key role in March ‘turmoil’
Risk management actions by leveraged funds can destabilise the financial system, deputy says
Bank of Italy paper looks at flatter Phillips curve
Weaker collective bargaining has played key role in flattening relationship, researchers say
MAS warns firms over third-party cyber risks
Ravi Menon warns of risks from open source software and third-party service providers
RBNZ extends some emergency measures
New Zealand central bank delays capital changes again and may reinstate LTV limits
A 19th century bank failure holds lessons for stablecoin era – BIS paper
Bank of Amsterdam’s early “stablecoin” fell apart as the bank lent more freely, authors say
Vietnamese central bank gets first female governor
Deputy governor Nguyen Thi Hong to become the first governor of State Bank of Vietnam
RBNZ launches funding for lending programme
Central bank avoids taking rates negative but says the policy remains an option
BoE paper offers solution to ‘paradox of flexibility’
Using shadow rate can avoid anomalous results at zero lower bound, authors say
Regulatory frameworks should apply to activities not institutions – Mester
Cleveland Fed president says policy-makers must increase co-operation and co-ordination on fintech
IMF postpones 2021 annual meeting in Morocco
Meeting will go ahead in Washington, DC, instead, with new Marrakesh date scheduled for 2022
Weak banks could reverse effects of policy rate cuts – ECB paper
Countercyclical buffers play crucial role in preventing “reversal interest rate” events, researchers find
Baltic central banks aim for joint commercial paper market
Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian central banks to work with EBRD on creating short-term debt market
Fed examines climate risks in stability report for first time
It is “vitally important” that climate risks are “assessed and addressed”, says Lael Brainard
IMF approves $370 million credit facility for Afghanistan
New programme aims to support country’s recovery from Covid-19
BIS paper pins down causal impact of capital flows
Study based on confidential BIS data finds capital controls can help prevent overheating
China mandates deposit insurance labels
PBoC goes further in implementing deposit insurance policies to mitigate risk
Cash usage in Norway falls to 4%
Deputy governor says CBDC research is ongoing but any future system would be controlled by the central bank
Riksbank publishes list of companies eligible for bond purchases
List includes 50 companies and will be updated on the first weekday of the month
RBI adapting to ‘increasingly complex web’ of non-banks
Deputy governor highlights “significant change” to RBI’s regulatory approach