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Fed to stress-test banks’ leveraged loan exposures
Test features leveraged loan shock; scenario includes biggest-ever rise in unemployment
BoE paper finds heterogeneous policy transmission to firms
Authors say financial frictions “crucial” to understanding monetary policy transmission
Coronavirus is new risk to US outlook – Fed report
Virus risks disruption in China spilling over to the global economy, the Fed says
Central Banking Awards 2020: the winners
All the winners in the 2020 Central Banking Awards
ECB paper looks at professional inflation forecasters
No statistically significant evidence of some forecasters being worse than others, researcher says
IMF’s Lipton and Grasso step down amid ‘changes’ to top leadership
Kristalina Georgieva is shaking up fund’s top management team
Fed’s Quarles warns big balance sheet could harm credibility
Fed official proposes tweaks to discount window and G-Sib surcharges to improve monetary framework
IMF seeks to improve ‘climate stress tests’
Effort hampered by lack of good data and failure to develop “green taxonomy” – IMF officials
People: Fed governor gets new term; IMF’s Poul Thomsen to retire
New appointments made and portfolios reshuffled in the US, UK and more
New payments platform helped transfers during Australian bushfires
RBA was able to get money to those affected ‘immediately’, says Philip Lowe
Dutch households sharply increased savings in 2019
Higher net incomes and the need to offset lower interest rates behind surge, says DNB
ECB monetary policy was weakened by regulation – Bundesbank paper
Tighter regulation reduced lending by weakly-capitalised banks from 2008 to 2018 – researchers
Cuban president appoints new central bank governor
Marta Sabina Wilson González was senior official at state-owned lender
Central Banking Awards 2020: final winners announced
Awards include lifetime achievement, transparency, communications and website
RBI holds rates as MPC sees diverging inflation and growth
Policy-makers face challenge as inflation climbs and growth disappoints
US must review payments system oversight, Brainard says
Big tech’s currency plans could mean payments oversight is further weakened – senior Fed official
Basel III changed securities dealing – Bank of Canada paper
Regulations have changed dealers’ behaviour and reduced risk, study finds
ECB officials lay out positions on future inflation target
Weidmann and de Cos set priorities as strategy review focuses on inflation measurement and target
BIS economist explores uneven adoption of fintech
Several factors can explain why some countries have been quicker to adopt fintech than others
Eurozone banks increase illiquid assets after solvency shocks – DNB paper
Shift in asset holdings could create asset price distortions after banking crises, researchers say
Iceland resumes easing cycle on weaker growth forecasts
Central bank cuts key interest rate by 25 basis points to 2.75%
Central Banking Awards 2020: third group launched
Awards unveiled for currency manager, initiative, economics, currency services, advisory and data
IMF praises Rwandan central bank’s progress on inflation targeting
Funding investment will be challenging but inflation should peak early this year, IMF staff say
FSB boosts role of regional groups in decision-making
Review finds groups valued and should have greater say in FSB affairs