Articles by Central Banking Newsdesk
BoJ opinion survey highlights shift in expectations
Survey of public opinion sees Japanese people increasingly pessimistic about the economy as a whole, but there are signs the Bank of Japan’s policy efforts may be paying dividends
EBA declares LCR 'not likely' to have negative impact
Impact assessment by European Banking Authority finds liquidity coverage ratio is unlikely to negatively impact bank lending or financial stability; some banks show shortfall
Cuban central bank to issue three new large-value banknotes
Central bank plans to issue banknotes worth 200, 500 and 1,000 domestic pesos; the largest note currently in circulation is worth 100 pesos
Ex-finance minister replaces Angolan governor after shock resignation
José de Lima Massano resigns from the National Bank of Angola; the President accepts his resignation and appoints former finance minister to succeed him
DNB paper calls for ‘fundamental overhaul' of Dutch pensions system
Central bank says current system has ‘opaque redistributive elements that are difficult to justify' and puts some generations ‘at a disadvantage in favour of others'
Economists at SNB study reuse of collateral
Working paper estimates the level of reuse activity in the Swiss franc report market between 2006 and 2013, before analysing the drivers of it
Cash settlement shifts to central bank platform in Kenya
Cash settlement of equity and corporate bond transactions on Nairobi Securities Exchange now taking place on Central Bank of Kenya’s real-time platform
ESRB on the hunt for experts to join macro-prudential advisory committee
Applicants for a seat on Advisory Scientific Committee must be academics or industry practitioners and cannot be employees of a member institution
Plosser: Regular monetary reports would force FOMC to ‘think more deeply’
Philadelphia Fed president Charles Plosser sets out why the Federal Reserve should publish a quarterly monetary policy report – part of which he and colleagues have already modelled
Central Bank of Colombia director calls for new policy tools
Colombia’s central bank needs to ‘steer regulation towards dealing with the systemic risks in the financial sector as a whole’ and not as isolated parts, argues director
Rajan catches markets off guard with unscheduled rate cut
Markets get ‘pleasant surprise’ as Reserve Bank of India unveils a rate cut outside its normal policy schedule; analysts predict further cuts to come
Bundesbank paper: German banks use specific loan loss provisions counter-cyclically
Banks increase level of loan loss provisions during upswings and decrease them during downturns, authors find; contrasts with results from other countries
Bank of Russia hires deputy to head up monetary policy implementation
Dmitry Tulin returns to the central bank as first deputy with responsibility for monetary policy; Ksenia Yudaeva will now focus solely on financial stability
Ireland’s Honohan: organisational structure to be ‘thoroughly overhauled’
Central Bank of Ireland governor details ongoing efforts to rectify the regulatory failings that led to the 2008 crisis in the country's banking system
People: Sri Lanka gets new governor, Albania 'very close'
Arjuna Mahendran appointed governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka following elections last week; Gent Sejko on track to become Albanian governor, says spokesperson; and more
Slovenian paper examines government spending in a monetary union
Government consumption expenditure can have’ strong effects’ on private consumption and output in a small and open economy within a monetary union, research finds
Canada deputy warns lower oil prices likely 'to be bad' for the country
Timothy Lane says gains from recent price drop ‘will be more than reversed' as hit to local producers ‘spill over to the rest of the economy'
Carney: ECB has ‘tools and clarity of mandate' to hit inflation target
BoE governor says there is ‘every reason' to expect the ECB to take the ‘measures necessary' to tackle low inflation as he weighs in on several international issues in parliamentary hearing
World Bank research sees value in ‘acyclical’ remittances
Remittance flows show little correlation with the business cycle and therefore can play an important role in allowing consumption smoothing
IMF gains one deputy managing director but loses another
Carla Grasso set to join as first-ever chief administrative officer, while Naoyuki Shinohara will leave at the end of his term; Lagarde praises his ‘trademark efficient and sharp insights’
Afghanistan governor Delawari resigns
Noorullah Delawari resigns three years into his second term at the central bank; first deputy governor Khan Afzal Hadawal will serve as caretaker until permanent replacement is appointed
Bank of Japan to release first bond market survey results in March
With new QQE measures introduced in October, Bank of Japan will conduct a new bond market survey in February to 'enhance dialogue with market participants'
Central Bank of Azerbaijan hits back at FX critics
Forex interventions made in 2014 – buying foreign currency throughout the year and then reversing the trades in a single month – were essential for maintaining stability, central bank says
Government spend no more effective at ZLB – NBER paper
US government spending did not become more powerful when monetary policy hit a zero lower bound, according to a working paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research